What I’ve Been Reading – 2/21/2022

Celebrating the Birth of Surfing in California | Santa Barbara Independent Andrew Leonard’s Santa Barbara Scenes | Santa Barbara Independent The Racism of the Great Outdoors | Washington Post Why Printers Are the Worst | NPR It all amounts to something | Santa Barbara Independent ‘From the Serious to the Seriously Weird’ | The NewContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/21/2022”

What I’ve Been Reading – 2/14/2022

Good news (for now) for one of SoCal’s Most Popular Surf Spots | LAist Rule plans to retire from Cabell County Public Library | The Herald-Dispatch Return of the Pied-a-terre | The New York Times I tackled my climate anxiety by becoming a Parks Department Super Steward | New York Magazine 91-year-old Lassen National ParkContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/14/2022”

What I’ve Been Reading – 2/7/2022

Stacey Abrams and Michael Connelly On Plot, Persistence, and Passion | Elle How ‘Two Minutes to Late Night’ Created the Web’s Wildest Quarantine Covers Series | Rolling Stone Looking for Bison in the Wichita Mountains | Texas Monthly On the Profoundly Modern Marriage of Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff | Vogue How Orthodox Women AreContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/7/2022”

What I’ve Been Reading – 1/24/2022

Rosslyn Metro Escalator | Atlas Obscura 24 hours in a diner? This Ridgewood quartet’s tradition is so Jersey | Daily Record The Sandy Hook Pilots | The New Yorker A Glimpse at the People and Cars of L.A.’s Lowrider Scene | Los Angeles Magazine The Last Great Mystery of the Mind: Meet the People WhoContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 1/24/2022”

What I’ve Been Reading – 1/17/2022

“Now Everyone in the World Can See This”: Folklife and the Internet | Library of Congress It’s Never Too Late to Learn How to Swim | The New York Times John Palminteri | Santa Barbara Independent Beauty from Disarray | Harvard Magazine Eve Babitz and the Hollywood Library | Los Angeles Public Library Hustling toContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 1/17/2022”

What I’ve Been Reading – 9/20/2021

The story behind the mysterious crests on old San Francisco homes | SFGate Library in Tiny Alaskan Village Tackles Housing Shortage | Programming Librarian At the edge of Santa Barbara County, Cuyama is Central California’s cowboy valley of enchantment | SFGate Have a good week!

What I’ve Been Reading – 3/8/2020

Resolutions, PA Style | Pennsylvania WILDS The Internet’s Most Incredible Collection of Food History Has Been Saved | Eater Former Amoeba Music Music Manager Now Works As An Echo Park Librarian | The Eastsider LA Rest in Pieces, Dave Thomas Circle | The Washingtonian Last Night Out | Slate An Incomplete History of Spice inContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/8/2020”

What I’ve Been Reading – 3/1/2021

Embroiled in Multiple Hollywood Sex Scandals, Charlotte Kirk Breaks Her Silence | Los Angeles magazine Drawing the Line: How Libraries Handle the Legacy of Racist Murals | American Libraries Vivan Howard’s Christmas Ode to the Piggly Wiggly | Garden & Gun More Seats at the Table: Diversity in Librarianship Starts With Hiring | American LibrariesContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 3/1/2021”

What I’ve Been Reading – 2/8/2021

Eduardo Diaz On The Efforts To Create A National Museum Of The American Latino | NPR Self-Knowledge Can Help You Strengthen Your Romantic Relationships | Gretchen Rubin Mason Gross Student Designs Two Recent New Yorker Covers | Rutgers Today “Calendar Days” (Poem) | Jake Adam York ‘Hi Haters’: Why New Jersey’s Twitter Account Is LikeContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading – 2/8/2021”

What I’ve Been Reading – 12/15/2020

Feels Like Home (Blog Series) | Los Angeles Public Library Meet the Breakout Star of Governor Kemp’s Press Conferences: Sign Language Interpreter David Cowan | Atlantic Magazine In This House, We Believe… | McSweeney’s Have a good week!