SF Examiner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Our experiences deserve to be in stories, deserve to be on the page, and deserve to be on the screen." The TV adaption of Bay Area author Gene Luen Yang's "American Born Chinese" hits Disney+ today. He spoke with The Examiner about what that means. https://t.co/ePInIwmthz

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In “The Headlands,” playwright Christopher Chen takes the potentially opposing elements of truth and memory and muddies the waters with one of his favorite story-telling devices, the unreliable narrator. https://t.co/jpKXGctJ6Q

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OPINION: When I think of all the books I shouldn’t have read growing up, I could have been protected from so many unnecessarily bold and groundbreaking ideas. What I would have given not to have read J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/opinion-the-wonderful-new-trend-of-book-banning/

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Remember that time Thor destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge? It’s one of Stan Lee’s many storytelling connections to The City. https://t.co/LvXd0WoLsz

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Palo Alto isn’t a ghost town, but there are a lot of skeletons in its closet. “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World” recounts a haunted past. https://t.co/hRbhQUq1Nu

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The novel is a satiric, angry indictment of the culture in which we are currently swamped. http://ow.ly/18bj50GvIbG

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Dave Eggers' latest novel is not set in Golden Gate Park, though it might be hard to tell. The award-winning author and longtime San Franciscan spoke to The Examiner about his newest book, which is about a dog. And that dog loves to run. https://t.co/zufzjCRYDQ

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Author Jennifer Egan has come a long way from her Bay Area youth, though she remains fond of The City. “There’s something about a place that you’ve known since childhood that always feels like it’s connected to the past." http://ow.ly/ZToL50JEaqv