Nasim Ghasemiyeh is an assistant editor at Alta Journal and an intern at City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. She graduated with a degree in rhetoric from UC Berkeley.
Like Kingston’s memoir, these five experimental, genre-bending books suggest that we are each made of many selves.
Get lost among found objects.
Carribean Fragoza on the brilliance of decay.
See Yosemite through Ansel Adams’s eyes.
Provocative messages in a barren landscape.
This SoCal town’s murals are all sweet, never sour.
Julia Flynn Siler on researching trauma for The White Devil’s Daughters.
Here are five disaster films that explore some of the same questions raised in Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell.
A one-stop shop for taking on the great outdoors in style.
Start the next gold rush with this mining kit.
Rothy’s puts its best foot forward with machine-washable shoes made from recyclables.
Crack open a beer in skateboarder style.
This Sonoma Valley company thinks outside the box.
Save the planet with every flush.
The North Beach icon who inspired countless writers and activists is memorialized by fans across the globe.
The author of Devil in a Blue Dress says his Easy Rawlins character represents “an aspect of Black consciousness.”
