The Isms of March! Thinking Critically about Society Seminar Series Announced!

We’re back at it again with a series of seminars The Isms of March as part of our Thinking Critically about Society series. We’ll be joined by CSU Monterey Bay professors, local poets, and critically thinkers just like you to help tackle some of the different ideologies and theories that we’ve been hearing about. FridayContinue reading “The Isms of March! Thinking Critically about Society Seminar Series Announced!”

The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast – Presentation by author Kim Steinhardt

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populated, urbanized, and industrialized — but also home to wilderness with complex, fragile ecosystems — the coast is the place where humanity and nature coexist in a precarious balance that isContinue reading “The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast – Presentation by author Kim Steinhardt”

Jeff McKown, author of Solid Ground, to appear at Old Capitol Books

Saturday 27 January 2018, 1pm: Local author Jeff McKown will be in-store reading from copies of his new novel Solid Ground. The book is published by NineStar Press, a small LGBT publishing house based in New Mexico. Solid Ground is a beautifully written coming-of-middle-age novel about a damaged, but kind-hearted, gay man who must battle his pastContinue reading “Jeff McKown, author of Solid Ground, to appear at Old Capitol Books”

Theory & Philosophy 32: Friendship as a Form of Life

“We face each other without terms or convenient words, with nothing to assure us about the meaning of the movement that carries us toward each other. We have to invent, from A to Z, a relationship that is still formless, which is friendship.” The Direct Action Monterey Network and Old Capitol Books are coming togetherContinue reading “Theory & Philosophy 32: Friendship as a Form of Life”