When I’m not out eating and writing for my vegetarian blog (which you should check out under my author page!), I pursue my other addiction – reading. There are so many lists out there of books that I just have to read before I die, like actually a lot. But one list caught my eye [...]

David Rakoff visited Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Sunday night to give a reading of his recent works and work in progress. If you are familiar with his autobiographical essay collections Fraud or Don’t Get Too Comfortable, his contributions to the radio show This American Life, or have read his articles in the New York Times, [...]

The icons of teenage angst in literature are well-known by every high school graduate and every turbulent adolescent bearing the themes they describe.  Yet past graduation, there is no Catcher in the Rye to unify the complicated plights of college students or disobedient youth born after the 1950’s.  However, in the search for Holden outside [...]

With the new film adaption starring Daniel Radcliffe (this is his first post-Harry Potter film) in theaters, I thought I’d check out The Woman in Black from the library before embarking to the movie theater. It is a short horror novel by Susan Hill, less than 200 pages, and published in 1983.   The book [...]

            The late Alexander McQueen was renowned, sometimes to the point of being notorious, for his otherworldly and bizarre designs. Although his designs have now found homes upon the red carpet, McQueen was quite the opposite of a conventional celebrity. Growing up, he knew he was destined to have a [...]

  Last Thursday evening, January 12, punk rocker and author Alice Bag took part in a special book reading/musical performance combo. It was sponsored by Moe’s Books, a bookstore on Telegraph, and hosted at Amoeba Records (also found on Telegraph). The audience got the opportunity to hear Alice Bag read from her memoir Violence Girl: [...]