Reading Room

Book signings, new releases, and the secret lives of librarians.

Around the World with the Dalai Lama

By: Tasneem Raja | April 7, 2009 – 4:46 pm

Pico Iyer, the travel writer and a decades-long acquaintance of the current Dalai Lama, has a new book about his old friend.

Reading Room: Stephanie Young Is Deep

By: Tasneem Raja | April 1, 2009 – 1:09 pm

Deep Oakland project’s Stephanie Young reads her poetry at Studio One on April 3.

Reading Room: Much admired, much hated Chinese novelist at The Book Zoo on Friday

By: Tasneem Raja | March 3, 2009 – 1:37 pm

The worldwide reception of Chinese novelist Yu Hua’s fourth novel, Brothers, reminds me of the Slumdog Millionaire paradox. The country it portrays protests with indignation...

Reading Room: Sunrise Bookshop

By: Tasneem Raja | February 23, 2009 – 2:59 pm

Sunrise Bookshop, an oasis of crystals and sutras in troubled times.

The ants are my friends/they’re blowing in the wind

By: Tasneem Raja | February 15, 2009 – 1:01 am

[from the Reading Room] I just read a requiem the wisecracking short-story writer Lorrie Moore wrote for John Updike in the NYT, and I’ve never...

The Department of Broken Spines

By: Tasneem Raja | February 13, 2009 – 4:51 pm

Welcome to a recurring feature here at the Reading Room, The Department of Broken Spines.

Deth P. Sun: I See it All

By: Tasneem Raja | February 9, 2009 – 10:20 am

“Deth P. Sun’s artwork has long focused on the mythological quest of anthropomorphic cats.” [Rowan Morrison Gallery]