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Please submit Local Notes items to the Editor by Noon on Fridays — editor@advocate-news.com or by phone at 707-380-1142. Writers of the Mendocino Coast Meeting Jenny will discuss the tools she has learned, weaving together her twenty years as a writing teacher with her training as a hypnotherapist to create Trance Writing, a method combining […]

Hypochondria, obsession, and confusion set the rules for a love affair in Jenny Bitners excellent debut novel, Here Is a Game We Could Play.

Tuesdays, Thursdays Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, so KALW producer Lisa Morehouse brought author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved the idea so much, were going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour. Subscribe to this podcast in NPR One, Radio Public, or your favorite podcast player. Ways To Subscribe

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Vanessa Hua December 31, 2020Updated: December 31, 2020, 4:00 pm On New Year’s Day, Vijaya Nagarajan will make a kolam, a rice flour design, on the front threshold of her home. Vijaya Nagarajan, author of “Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Ecology in Southern India, An Exploration of the Kolam.” Photo: Lee Swenson Growing up — whether in her ancestral village in southern India, a government flat in New Delhi or a townhouse in suburban Maryland — she and her fam...