Behind the Desk at the Main is out 8/18! This is a beautiful, funny, heartfelt exploration of library work, and I loved editing it. www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/behi...

Behind the Desk at the Main: A Librarian's Memoir

From a celebrated librarian and public historian, a memoir about the promise of public libraries in a fractured world.

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@bookriot.bsky.social ranks 𝘽𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙣 among August's best new nonfiction! 📚️

Greg Sarris's "The Last Human Bear" is in @electricliterature.com's list of great summer reads from small presses! Greg's novel is so good, and it's exciting to see the word about it spreading: electricliterature.com/the-small-pr...

The Small Press Titles You Don’t Want To Miss This Summer - Electric Literature

Looking for a great book to take on your next beach trip? Check out some of the best indie titles of the season

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“Lush and gripping.” —Rebecca Solnit "Astonishing." —Alta "Unscientifically calculated reading time: One and a half sleepless nights." —The Believer Greg Sarris's first novel in 28 years, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧, is out from @heydaybooks.com today! www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/the-...

The Last Human Bear: A Novel

An epic story of curses, love, hard-won independence, and healing—and the first novel in 28 years by a widely acclaimed Native writer.

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Heyday has a table at LITLIT in LA this weekend. Stop by and say hello to @msatris.bsky.social!

Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Los Angeles, hope to see you this weekend! litlit.org

Today marks the anniversary of the court decision that helped end Native American school segregation in California, and it is named #AlicePiperDay in honor of the Paiute teenager who made it possible. Out now, 𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙨 𝙐𝙥 is the first-ever book about her historic fight for justice.

Alice Piper Speaks Up

New richly illustrated book for middle grade readers chronicles the pathbreaking Native American student who desegregated California schools.

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Terria Smith's memoir, I Love You So Many, is out 6/23, and it's such a moving and insightful and hilarious book. More about it here: www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/i-lo...

I Love You So Many

From a celebrated Native journalist, an electrifying memoir of travel, love, friendships, and connection across cultures.

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Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Terria Smith (Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla) has a memoir coming out with Heyday this spring, & it just got some great press in Ms Magazine! If you want to read an approachable, adventurous book by a Native woman journalist, mom, & world traveler, this is your jam msmagazine.com/2026/06/01/b...

If you're at the Bay Area Book Festival tomorrow (Sunday), I'll be tabling with my @heydaybooks.com friends in the morning! More info here: www.baybookfest.org/outdoorfair2...

Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come say hello to everyone at @heydaybooks.com this Sunday in Berkeley at The Bay Area Book Festival in Small Press Alley!

Alice Piper Speaks Up is out from @heydaybooks.com next week! This is a book we've wanted to publish for over 10 years, and it's finally here. It's so moving to see @kqedarts.bsky.social recognize the story of this remarkable teenager.

Heyday@heydaybooks.com · 3mo ago

𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙨 𝙐𝙥 is the first-ever book about the Native American teenager who, at 14 years old, successfully fought for the right of Indigenous students to attend public school in California. @kqedarts.bsky.social lauds the book as "beautiful", "vivid," and "powerful."

Thanks to Espace Etale for hosting me yesterday! Here's a recording of the performance—three improvised pieces that turned out as late-night choral Western music: www.youtube.com/live/AqUZyAO...

Tonight at 9 p.m. PT, I'll be playing live on my dear friend's weekly livestream series Espace Etale. Expect gentle drones and slow guitar melodies. Tune in! The livestream will be on this page: www.youtube.com/@espace_etal...

Espace Etale

A weekly showcase of Bay Area electronic and experimental music. Streaming every Monday at 9 p.m.

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Greil Marcus's latest Q&A column is now up. (I asked a question in this one.) greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-... Submit your own questions here! greilmarcus.net/submission-f...

Ask Greil: April 4, 2026

Roxy Music, vampires, friendship, and the Civil War

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The annual Day of Noise—24 hours of live experimental music—at @kzsustanford.bsky.social is happening now! I'll be playing an ambient-drone set with a friend 9–9:30 p.m. PT. Tune in at kzsu.stanford.edu.

For the past year I've been working with Greil Marcus on his Substack. He's studied rock music and US history for over 50 years, and he's one of my all-time favorite writers. He keeps a Q&A column—check it out, and submit a question of your own! greilmarcus.substack.com/p/ask-greil-...

Ask Greil: January 15, 2026

"The Brutalist," Adrien Brody, the Band, and Lester Bangs

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I'm DJing on @kzsustanford.bsky.social today, 4–9 p.m. PT. College radio is just the best, and I'm excited to return to KZSU for a day and spin the wildest combination of music possible. Tune in: kzsu.stanford.edu

"Who among us is truly normal? Everyone has something, everyone is different, and that is precisely the new, wonderful norm . . . that so deeply irritates the far-right moralists." Beautiful essay by @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

Agnieszka Holland’s Complicated Kafka, by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

A writer and musician from Gdańsk, Poland, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski collaborated on Franz with Agnieszka Holland, a filmmaker who in the dark times of the Communist regime left Poland for Prague out of lo...

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R.I.P. Lô Borges, who's responsible for one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoe4...

Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo

YouTube video by Lô Borges - Topic

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Malcolm Margolin, founder of @heydaybooks.com, passed away this morning at 84. He changed my life—his example meant everything to me. I know so many people who feel the same way. He truly made our world a more joyous and beautiful place. I miss him, and I'll be grateful for him forever.

I heard this Nap Eyes song for the first time yesterday, and now I'm obsessed and can't stop listening napeyes.bandcamp.com/track/dark-m...

Dark Mystery Enigma Bird, by Nap Eyes

from the album The Neon Gate

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New favorite book cover (thanks to Marlon Rigel):

I wish I'd had this book when I was a teenager wanting to learn about the literature of my home state. Working on this with John Freeman was a blast. It's out October 14!

Heyday@heydaybooks.com · last yr.

Knopf Editor John Freeman proposes the contours of a contemporary California canon, encompassing 49 West Coast writers and an iconic literary institution in his new book charting the Golden State's 21st-Century literary landscape—out from Heyday this fall.

If you're in/around Oakland on Thursday 7/24, come join us for this event!

Heyday@heydaybooks.com · last yr.

Adventurers Josh Jackson and Obi Kaufmann have each charted comprehensive inventories of California, mapping the state in their own distinctive styles. In this Heyday Presents event they explore themes of resiliency, activism, and art as an entry point to stewardship. Join us:

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 is a story of adventures across California landscapes from the Mojave Desert to the Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness," writes the @latimes.com. "The shadow of the current assault on public lands weighs heavy while reading this lovely book."

Review: ‘Enduring Wild’ is an engaging travelogue about California public lands under attack

Looking for a place to go camping with his kids, Josh Jackson began exploring California public lands with his family. Now BLM land in the state and country could be sold.

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" @rosannaxia.bsky.social’s 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 is not for the faint of heart," writes @altajournal.bsky.social of Xia's awards-winning debut book on sea level rise, "It is both a cautionary tale and a call to action."

The Book That Confronts California’s Rising Seas

David L. Ulin urges readers to engage with Rosanna Xia’s urgent, empathetic look at California’s climate crisis and rising sea levels.

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Heyday is now on Bluesky! Follow us at @heydaybooks.bsky.social.

Heyday@heydaybooks.com · last yr.

What is Heyday? Good question. We are an independent publisher founded in 1974 and rooted in California.📍 We are dedicated to publishing books that celebrate the Golden State's natural splendor, history and culture, Indigenous voices, and social justice movements. heydaybooks.com

$400 to go and 4 days left for @ikeproject.bsky.social's Kickstarter! Check it out, consider donating, and share this around:

Emmerich Anklam@eianklam.bsky.social · last yr.

A Heyday alum is starting a chapbook publisher! @ikeproject.bsky.social has been talking about this ever since he trained me up at Heyday nearly ten years ago, and the lineup looks wonderful. Here's the Kickstarter—check it out and share widely: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

New East Bay literary event calendar alert!

Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · last yr.

I made a thing with the good people of the Oakland Review of Books! Have a better week now that you know all about the cool bookish and artish and Townish things that are happening: oakland-review-of-books.ghost.io/the-oakland-...

The best little book on California lizards is out this week! Find it at your local bookstore, follow the author at @snakeymama.bsky.social, and check out her events at www.emilytaylorscience.com/events.html!

Sonoma County folks, check out this poetry event in Guerneville on Wednesday!

Marthine Satris@msatris.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to be part of this talented group of poets celebrating Poetry Month and Kelly Gray's new collection of poetry! Please come to our reading at Russian River Books & Letters in Guerneville on Wednesday April 23, at 7 pm.

I am so thrilled to see this solidly enthusiastic review from Kirkus for a gorgeous Heyday book I acquired & edited: The Enduring Wild, by Josh Jackson: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... As someone who reviewed for Kirkus once upon a time, I know how demanding their readers are!

THE ENDURING WILD | Kirkus Reviews

A pilgrimage to the “leftover lands.”

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RIP Jeffrey Runnings. I listened to For Against all the time when I was a teenager. Their music from the 80s is post-punk heaven, but I loved their later and less recognized music too—especially this album. foragainst.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

Never Been, by For Against

9 track album

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