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The author provides the script in the form of the book. The reader calls upon an inner artist — essentially, an entire internalized motion picture production company — creating the actors, the sets, and the exciting action set-pieces in in her or her mind. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps, of course to have the right books to make these experiences most like the movies. With that in mind, here’s a selection that will beat any blockbuster you might sit through this summer. Some of these titles may be headed to the big screen, but if you read them now, you can have your own personal director’s cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-400x586.jpg\" alt=\"the alienist\" width=\"400\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-400x586.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-204x300.jpg 204w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Alienist\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Caleb Carr\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The “alienist” of the title is the term that was once applied to psychologists, because they studied those who were “alienated” from themselves. In Carr’s creepy, terrifying vision of New York City in 1896, Doctor Laszlo Kreitzler is an alienist who finds himself pursuing a man who is killing adolescent boys. \u003ci>The Alienist\u003c/i> begins as Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Commissioner of New York, enlists the aid of Kreitzler and John Schuyler Moore, a crime reporter for \u003ci>The New York Times\u003c/i>. The murders are causing a rising panic in the city. With Sara Howard, a police secretary, they will work to determine who is killing the boys by determining why the boys are being killed. It’s nothing less than the birth of “profiling,” as it is known today, in a dank and musty city of yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carr front-loads the story with meticulous details, and as the story unfolds, you’ll feel that city around you as well as the rising tension. Kreitzler is a great American version of Sherlock Holmes, and Carr does a bang-up job making sure his deductions never swerve into pastiche or anachronism. Think of \u003ci>Silence of the Lambs\u003c/i> in a historical setting. Carr always had a movie in mind when he wrote the book. Rights were sold and scripts were written (Phillip Kaufman spent two years in San Francisco on this project), but none ever made it to screen, and that’s probably for the best. \u003ci>The Alienist\u003c/i> crafts a world that goes beyond the pages but never leaves the Earth.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"the three\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three-400x603.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Three\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sarah Lotz\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Author Sarah Lotz had a fear of flying, and thought that writing about plane crashes might cure her. Instead, she wrote the opening passage of \u003ci>The Three\u003c/i> and found herself unable to sleep for two weeks. We see a crash from the perspective of Pamela May Donald, a nice low-key woman with an evangelical bent. But it’s not the only crash. Four planes go down at the same moment, in four locations around the world; Pamela’s flight in Japan, another in Florida, one in the ocean off the UK, and one that annihilates a township just outside of Capetown in South Africa. It’s definitely not terrorism. One child miraculously survives in three of the disasters. They are “The Three,” and a phone recording from Pamela is taken as a dire warning of apocalyptic proportions by her “End-Times” pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lotz tells the story as a work of “non-fiction” by journalist Elspeth Martin in an utterly gripping oral history. Panic about the cause of the crashes escalates and is whipped up by proponents of alien overlords as well as those hoping to see the Book of Revelations come to pass. The search for “The Fourth Child” in Africa becomes an obsession, as The Three are forced into hiding. Lotz will keep you reading and immersed until the very last page, and in the process crafts scenes you’ll never forget. Buy an extra copy to loan to your friends, because you won’t want to give up yours before you’re done, or even after.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-400x602.jpg\" alt=\"rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>It’s the sort of story that sounds like a movie pitch, and it’s intensely timely four years after the book came out. David Rohde was a \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> reporter who was heading to what he thought would be an interview with a top-ranking Taliban. Instead, he was kidnapped and held for ransom. His wife, Kristin Mulvihill, was working as the Photography Director for \u003ci>Cosmopolitan\u003c/i> magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t make deals with terrorists,” is much easier said than done. This book recounts, in alternating chapters, Rohde’s experience of being kidnapped and Mulvihill’s efforts to get him returned. Not a word is wasted in this intense, true story. On both sides of the equation, things get surreal pretty fast, with Mulvihill supervising the photo shoot of a fussy celebrity, then stepping out to view kidnap video with the FBI in a car parked in front of Starbucks. The Taliban would call them collect to demand the ransom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohde spent his time being dragged at gunpoint, generally laying down in the back seats of cars, around one of the most dangerous places in the world. Hillary Clinton makes a guest appearance, not something you’re likely to see in the movies anytime soon. This is the stuff of thrillers, with an intense, real love story that will make the movie versions seem pale by comparison. As a chaser, read Rohde’s latest, \u003ci>Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East\u003c/i>. Prescience is apparently highly undervalued.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg\" alt=\"acceptance\" width=\"355\" height=\"541\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10137526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Jeff VanderMeer\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The first two books in Jeff VanderMeer’s \u003ci>Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Authority\u003c/i>, are already out, and the final, volume, \u003ci>Acceptance\u003c/i>, is finished, available for review and hits the shelves in September. \u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> is the story of the Twelfth expedition into Area X, a patch of land near somewhere near Florida that has undergone some unusual changes and been declared a toxic waste zone. But that’s clearly not what’s happening. The Southern Reach is the government agency, part CIA, part EPA, with a couple more parts of inexplicable, created to deal with Area X, because it appears to be getting bigger, and humans who go in often don’t come out. Those who do emerge are … different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> is told from the perspective of the expedition’s botanist, whose grip on reality seems more slippery the longer she’s there. What happens changes her. \u003ci>Authority\u003c/i> takes up the story from the perspective of “Control,” aka John Rodriguez, the man asked to take the helm of the moribund and ineffectual Southern Reach and get some results. The first book will make you shudder at the thought of a beautiful forest, and bunnies, while the second will evoke laughter and chills in equal portions. VanderMeer’s prose special effects are impeccable and mind-altering. Pace yourself so that you can pick up the third book the day it hits the shelves.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"moyes-one_plus_one\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-198x300.jpg 198w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-953x1440.jpg 953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>One Plus One\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Jojo Moyes\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Jojo Moyes’ \u003ci>One Plus One\u003c/i> takes the stuff of everyday life and adds just the right amount of challenge to craft a superbly enjoyable story about a single mother with odds to overcome. Jess barely earns enough cleaning houses and working at the pub to support her two children. Her ten-year old daughter, Tanzie, might just be a math genius. Her stepson, Nicky, seventeen, is a Goth who unsurprisingly has to pay a hefty social price for his choice. Tanzie has a shot at private school, but there are obstacles, not the least of which is Ed Nicholls, one of Jess’ clients. They dislike one another from the get-go, in an authentic and enjoyable-to-read-about manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moyes takes the stuff of romance and writes the heck out of it, giving readers of all ages and sexes a novel that’s funny, entertaining and tense. A hellish road-tip is the highlight, with a side order of the new British caste and class system effectively examined and brought to light. Great, realistic characters make the comedy funnier and the emotions ring true. \u003ci>One Plus One\u003c/i> shows Moyes at the height of her considerable powers and demonstrates that you can finish a great book and feel happy about life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-400x614.jpg\" alt=\"gridlinked\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-400x614.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-195x300.jpg 195w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Gridlinked\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Neal Asher\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Every summer needs a space opera or two. We’ll step back a few years and pick up the first big novel by Britain’s Neal Asher, \u003ci>Gridlinked\u003c/i>, to make us forget “Ferngully in Space,” “Lens Flares: Into Darkness” and “Groanmetheus.” Asher builds a universe that’s probably far too big to fit on the screen, but well-written enough to expand your reading mind to infinity and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humankind travels through the universe using runcibles, a technology that allows instantaneous travel from one world to the next. When an apparent runcible accident on the planet Samarkand causes a disaster, killing thousands, Agent Cormac is sent there to find out what is going on. Cormac is a burnout, and what he confronts on Samarkand will require from him efforts, and success, that he’s never imagined. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asher’s sparse prose evokes a gritty, often horrifying future with muscular ease. The set-pieces here, the shuttle battles, the confrontations with Mr. Crane, a difficult killing machine, and the ominous encounters with the Dracomen, who may be just a small part of a much larger alien, are superbly crafted. There’s a nice undertone of dark humor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cormac is a great, mordant character, part Terminator and part James Bond. Asher’s universe is gritty and industrial but gravid with life-to-be and fierce, unpleasant monsters. No CGI can match this. We’ll just have to go out there and find it ourselves, by which time we’ll discover that reading about monsters (human and otherwise) is better than meeting them. Of the many sequels, check out \u003ci>The Skinner\u003c/i> first.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-400x593.jpg\" alt=\"blue remembered earth\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-400x593.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-202x300.jpg 202w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/em> and \u003cem>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Alastair Reynolds\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Alastair Reynolds spent sixteen years working for the European Space Agency as an astrophysicist, but you’d never guess it from the lyrical prose and deep characters that bring his science fiction to life. The spot-on science and intuitive technology he crafts live up to his previous occupation, but the writing is the star of his latest space opera series, which begins with \u003ci>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/i> and continues in his latest, \u003ci>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds is an optimist, and we start in the first book, \u003ci>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/i>, with an Earth led by Africa that’s solved enough problems to make space travel possible. Geoffrey Akinya doesn’t want to be a part of it. He wants to study elephants, but his family has secrets on the Moon. His grandmother, Eunice, has created an awkward situation, discovering something that might upend utopia. \u003ci>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/i> finds Eunice’s great granddaughter, Chinya Akinya, part of an expedition that might need to discover its own origins. Reynolds will immerse you in the universe and give you the sense of wonder, an authentic feeling that there is more than we know, but not necessarily more than we might know.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"last stand at khe sanh\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Last Stand at Khe Sanh\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Gregg Jones\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In early 1968, 6,000 U.S. Marines, gathered in a remote mountaintop stronghold in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh, and found themselves surrounded by 20,000 well-armed North Vietnamese soldiers. Outnumbered more than three-to-one, the Americans held off the Vietnamese for 77 days. Historian Gregg Jones turns that battle into a nail-biting, page-turning and emotionally involving story, bringing to light and to life a sad, terrible moment shot through with heroism and the American military at its best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones manages to craft painstaking research into a gripping story of what he calls “the iconic confrontation of the Vietnam war.” It’s not pretty, but Jones manages to wrangle a farrago of facts into a comprehensible and compelling portrait of young men in hellish conditions. Maps and photos help, but it’s Jones’ ability to find the through-line of character and follow it that keeps you reading like an addict. This is not a pretty book; it wasn’t a pretty war. What Jones manages in \u003ci>Last Stand at Khe Sanh\u003c/i> will come to life in the reader’s mind in a manner that may change the way you think the next time our country feels compelled to stop a domino.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist-400x591.jpg\" alt=\"the confabulist\" width=\"400\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist-400x591.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Confabulist\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Steven Galloway\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Harry Houdini died from a ruptured appendix, which may have been the result of a punch to his abdomen. That’s the story we’re told, but it’s only one of many to wind their way through Steven Galloway’s \u003ci>The Confabulist\u003c/i>, an intense dive into the life and death of Harry Houdini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galloway conjures up the past with an eloquence and a sense of sinewy power no mere camera can match, because he does so from within, from the perspectives of his craftily-created characters. Houdini steps off the page and onto the stage of your reading mind, his artfully constructed magic no less or more an illusion than the words of the writer re-creating them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houdini sometimes seems like Sherlock Holmes and it is no coincidence he was a fan of the character and even a friend, of sorts, to Holmes’ creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But Doyle was a Spiritualist, and Houdini would not, could not believe. You won’t believe in magic, you won’t believe in spirits, but you will certainly believe that writing, at the level Galloway manages, is indeed a very powerful form of magic.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg\" alt=\"cornell-london_falling\" width=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10137516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>London Falling\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Severed Streets\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Paul Cornell\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Paul Cornell is probably best known for writing the some of the most-loved episodes of the recent run of the BBC’s \u003ci>Doctor Who\u003c/i>. In \u003ci>London Falling\u003c/i>, Cornell introduced Inspector James Quill, one of a quartet of London cops who manage to acquire the Sight. It’s not a happy prospect, as they’re now able to see the witches and magic of London, and thus privy to their secrets — and more likely to be their prey. They use both their new sensibilities and modern technology to manage the threats of magic and monsters. \u003ci>London Falling\u003c/i> begins with an investigation into a suspect killed by something unseen while in custody. The situation devolves, and Quill and his team find that magic is far too often fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ci>The Severed Streets\u003c/i>, Quill and his team must once again deal with an assailant only they can see. Really, really creepy murders begin to seem ominously like those of Jack the Ripper. An unsettled and unsettling political milieu makes life all kinds of difficult for Quill and company. This is a dark, intense police procedural horror novel. Read with a grimace but finish with a grin.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The real magic in any book happens off the page. It happens when the reader transforms the words into something more than communication, more than facts. To be certain, these books are all entertaining. But more than that, these books will inspire the artist that is any reader to new heights of creation. You create for an audience of one, but join an audience of many. Reading is the ultimate outlet for mass creativity, and the creativity of the masses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Create your own blockbuster with this selection of page turners that provide more thrills and chills than your average summer action flick.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":2631},"headData":{"title":"Better Than Blockbusters: 14 Action-Packed Books for Summer | KQED","description":"Create your own blockbuster with this selection of page turners that provide more thrills and chills than your average summer action flick.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Better Than Blockbusters: 14 Action-Packed Books for Summer","datePublished":"2014-06-16T13:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:39:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/10137511/better-than-blockbusters-14-action-packed-books-for-summer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Books offer a unique entertainment experience because they are a two-way street. The author provides the script in the form of the book. The reader calls upon an inner artist — essentially, an entire internalized motion picture production company — creating the actors, the sets, and the exciting action set-pieces in in her or her mind. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helps, of course to have the right books to make these experiences most like the movies. With that in mind, here’s a selection that will beat any blockbuster you might sit through this summer. Some of these titles may be headed to the big screen, but if you read them now, you can have your own personal director’s cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-400x586.jpg\" alt=\"the alienist\" width=\"400\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-400x586.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist-204x300.jpg 204w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/carr-the_alienist.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Alienist\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Caleb Carr\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The “alienist” of the title is the term that was once applied to psychologists, because they studied those who were “alienated” from themselves. In Carr’s creepy, terrifying vision of New York City in 1896, Doctor Laszlo Kreitzler is an alienist who finds himself pursuing a man who is killing adolescent boys. \u003ci>The Alienist\u003c/i> begins as Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Commissioner of New York, enlists the aid of Kreitzler and John Schuyler Moore, a crime reporter for \u003ci>The New York Times\u003c/i>. The murders are causing a rising panic in the city. With Sara Howard, a police secretary, they will work to determine who is killing the boys by determining why the boys are being killed. It’s nothing less than the birth of “profiling,” as it is known today, in a dank and musty city of yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carr front-loads the story with meticulous details, and as the story unfolds, you’ll feel that city around you as well as the rising tension. Kreitzler is a great American version of Sherlock Holmes, and Carr does a bang-up job making sure his deductions never swerve into pastiche or anachronism. Think of \u003ci>Silence of the Lambs\u003c/i> in a historical setting. Carr always had a movie in mind when he wrote the book. Rights were sold and scripts were written (Phillip Kaufman spent two years in San Francisco on this project), but none ever made it to screen, and that’s probably for the best. \u003ci>The Alienist\u003c/i> crafts a world that goes beyond the pages but never leaves the Earth.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three-400x603.jpg\" alt=\"the three\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three-400x603.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/lotz-the_three.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Three\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sarah Lotz\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Author Sarah Lotz had a fear of flying, and thought that writing about plane crashes might cure her. Instead, she wrote the opening passage of \u003ci>The Three\u003c/i> and found herself unable to sleep for two weeks. We see a crash from the perspective of Pamela May Donald, a nice low-key woman with an evangelical bent. But it’s not the only crash. Four planes go down at the same moment, in four locations around the world; Pamela’s flight in Japan, another in Florida, one in the ocean off the UK, and one that annihilates a township just outside of Capetown in South Africa. It’s definitely not terrorism. One child miraculously survives in three of the disasters. They are “The Three,” and a phone recording from Pamela is taken as a dire warning of apocalyptic proportions by her “End-Times” pastor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lotz tells the story as a work of “non-fiction” by journalist Elspeth Martin in an utterly gripping oral history. Panic about the cause of the crashes escalates and is whipped up by proponents of alien overlords as well as those hoping to see the Book of Revelations come to pass. The search for “The Fourth Child” in Africa becomes an obsession, as The Three are forced into hiding. Lotz will keep you reading and immersed until the very last page, and in the process crafts scenes you’ll never forget. Buy an extra copy to loan to your friends, because you won’t want to give up yours before you’re done, or even after.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-400x602.jpg\" alt=\"rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/rohde_mulvihill-a_rope_and_a_prayer.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>It’s the sort of story that sounds like a movie pitch, and it’s intensely timely four years after the book came out. David Rohde was a \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> reporter who was heading to what he thought would be an interview with a top-ranking Taliban. Instead, he was kidnapped and held for ransom. His wife, Kristin Mulvihill, was working as the Photography Director for \u003ci>Cosmopolitan\u003c/i> magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t make deals with terrorists,” is much easier said than done. This book recounts, in alternating chapters, Rohde’s experience of being kidnapped and Mulvihill’s efforts to get him returned. Not a word is wasted in this intense, true story. On both sides of the equation, things get surreal pretty fast, with Mulvihill supervising the photo shoot of a fussy celebrity, then stepping out to view kidnap video with the FBI in a car parked in front of Starbucks. The Taliban would call them collect to demand the ransom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohde spent his time being dragged at gunpoint, generally laying down in the back seats of cars, around one of the most dangerous places in the world. Hillary Clinton makes a guest appearance, not something you’re likely to see in the movies anytime soon. This is the stuff of thrillers, with an intense, real love story that will make the movie versions seem pale by comparison. As a chaser, read Rohde’s latest, \u003ci>Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East\u003c/i>. Prescience is apparently highly undervalued.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg\" alt=\"acceptance\" width=\"355\" height=\"541\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10137526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance.jpg 355w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/vandermeer-acceptance-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Jeff VanderMeer\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The first two books in Jeff VanderMeer’s \u003ci>Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c/i>, \u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Authority\u003c/i>, are already out, and the final, volume, \u003ci>Acceptance\u003c/i>, is finished, available for review and hits the shelves in September. \u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> is the story of the Twelfth expedition into Area X, a patch of land near somewhere near Florida that has undergone some unusual changes and been declared a toxic waste zone. But that’s clearly not what’s happening. The Southern Reach is the government agency, part CIA, part EPA, with a couple more parts of inexplicable, created to deal with Area X, because it appears to be getting bigger, and humans who go in often don’t come out. Those who do emerge are … different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Annihilation\u003c/i> is told from the perspective of the expedition’s botanist, whose grip on reality seems more slippery the longer she’s there. What happens changes her. \u003ci>Authority\u003c/i> takes up the story from the perspective of “Control,” aka John Rodriguez, the man asked to take the helm of the moribund and ineffectual Southern Reach and get some results. The first book will make you shudder at the thought of a beautiful forest, and bunnies, while the second will evoke laughter and chills in equal portions. VanderMeer’s prose special effects are impeccable and mind-altering. Pace yourself so that you can pick up the third book the day it hits the shelves.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"moyes-one_plus_one\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-198x300.jpg 198w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one-953x1440.jpg 953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/moyes-one_plus_one.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>One Plus One\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Jojo Moyes\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Jojo Moyes’ \u003ci>One Plus One\u003c/i> takes the stuff of everyday life and adds just the right amount of challenge to craft a superbly enjoyable story about a single mother with odds to overcome. Jess barely earns enough cleaning houses and working at the pub to support her two children. Her ten-year old daughter, Tanzie, might just be a math genius. Her stepson, Nicky, seventeen, is a Goth who unsurprisingly has to pay a hefty social price for his choice. Tanzie has a shot at private school, but there are obstacles, not the least of which is Ed Nicholls, one of Jess’ clients. They dislike one another from the get-go, in an authentic and enjoyable-to-read-about manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moyes takes the stuff of romance and writes the heck out of it, giving readers of all ages and sexes a novel that’s funny, entertaining and tense. A hellish road-tip is the highlight, with a side order of the new British caste and class system effectively examined and brought to light. Great, realistic characters make the comedy funnier and the emotions ring true. \u003ci>One Plus One\u003c/i> shows Moyes at the height of her considerable powers and demonstrates that you can finish a great book and feel happy about life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-400x614.jpg\" alt=\"gridlinked\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137514\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-400x614.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked-195x300.jpg 195w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/asher-gridlinked.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Gridlinked\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Neal Asher\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Every summer needs a space opera or two. We’ll step back a few years and pick up the first big novel by Britain’s Neal Asher, \u003ci>Gridlinked\u003c/i>, to make us forget “Ferngully in Space,” “Lens Flares: Into Darkness” and “Groanmetheus.” Asher builds a universe that’s probably far too big to fit on the screen, but well-written enough to expand your reading mind to infinity and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humankind travels through the universe using runcibles, a technology that allows instantaneous travel from one world to the next. When an apparent runcible accident on the planet Samarkand causes a disaster, killing thousands, Agent Cormac is sent there to find out what is going on. Cormac is a burnout, and what he confronts on Samarkand will require from him efforts, and success, that he’s never imagined. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asher’s sparse prose evokes a gritty, often horrifying future with muscular ease. The set-pieces here, the shuttle battles, the confrontations with Mr. Crane, a difficult killing machine, and the ominous encounters with the Dracomen, who may be just a small part of a much larger alien, are superbly crafted. There’s a nice undertone of dark humor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cormac is a great, mordant character, part Terminator and part James Bond. Asher’s universe is gritty and industrial but gravid with life-to-be and fierce, unpleasant monsters. No CGI can match this. We’ll just have to go out there and find it ourselves, by which time we’ll discover that reading about monsters (human and otherwise) is better than meeting them. Of the many sequels, check out \u003ci>The Skinner\u003c/i> first.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-400x593.jpg\" alt=\"blue remembered earth\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-400x593.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth-202x300.jpg 202w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/reynolds-blue_remembered_earth.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/em> and \u003cem>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Alastair Reynolds\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Alastair Reynolds spent sixteen years working for the European Space Agency as an astrophysicist, but you’d never guess it from the lyrical prose and deep characters that bring his science fiction to life. The spot-on science and intuitive technology he crafts live up to his previous occupation, but the writing is the star of his latest space opera series, which begins with \u003ci>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/i> and continues in his latest, \u003ci>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynolds is an optimist, and we start in the first book, \u003ci>Blue Remembered Earth\u003c/i>, with an Earth led by Africa that’s solved enough problems to make space travel possible. Geoffrey Akinya doesn’t want to be a part of it. He wants to study elephants, but his family has secrets on the Moon. His grandmother, Eunice, has created an awkward situation, discovering something that might upend utopia. \u003ci>On the Steel Breeze\u003c/i> finds Eunice’s great granddaughter, Chinya Akinya, part of an expedition that might need to discover its own origins. Reynolds will immerse you in the universe and give you the sense of wonder, an authentic feeling that there is more than we know, but not necessarily more than we might know.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"last stand at khe sanh\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/jones-last_atand-at_khe_sanh.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Last Stand at Khe Sanh\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Gregg Jones\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In early 1968, 6,000 U.S. Marines, gathered in a remote mountaintop stronghold in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh, and found themselves surrounded by 20,000 well-armed North Vietnamese soldiers. Outnumbered more than three-to-one, the Americans held off the Vietnamese for 77 days. Historian Gregg Jones turns that battle into a nail-biting, page-turning and emotionally involving story, bringing to light and to life a sad, terrible moment shot through with heroism and the American military at its best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones manages to craft painstaking research into a gripping story of what he calls “the iconic confrontation of the Vietnam war.” It’s not pretty, but Jones manages to wrangle a farrago of facts into a comprehensible and compelling portrait of young men in hellish conditions. Maps and photos help, but it’s Jones’ ability to find the through-line of character and follow it that keeps you reading like an addict. This is not a pretty book; it wasn’t a pretty war. What Jones manages in \u003ci>Last Stand at Khe Sanh\u003c/i> will come to life in the reader’s mind in a manner that may change the way you think the next time our country feels compelled to stop a domino.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist-400x591.jpg\" alt=\"the confabulist\" width=\"400\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10137518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist-400x591.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/galloway-the_confabulist.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Confabulist\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Steven Galloway\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Harry Houdini died from a ruptured appendix, which may have been the result of a punch to his abdomen. That’s the story we’re told, but it’s only one of many to wind their way through Steven Galloway’s \u003ci>The Confabulist\u003c/i>, an intense dive into the life and death of Harry Houdini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galloway conjures up the past with an eloquence and a sense of sinewy power no mere camera can match, because he does so from within, from the perspectives of his craftily-created characters. Houdini steps off the page and onto the stage of your reading mind, his artfully constructed magic no less or more an illusion than the words of the writer re-creating them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houdini sometimes seems like Sherlock Holmes and it is no coincidence he was a fan of the character and even a friend, of sorts, to Holmes’ creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But Doyle was a Spiritualist, and Houdini would not, could not believe. You won’t believe in magic, you won’t believe in spirits, but you will certainly believe that writing, at the level Galloway manages, is indeed a very powerful form of magic.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg\" alt=\"cornell-london_falling\" width=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10137516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/cornell-london_falling-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>London Falling\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Severed Streets\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Paul Cornell\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Paul Cornell is probably best known for writing the some of the most-loved episodes of the recent run of the BBC’s \u003ci>Doctor Who\u003c/i>. In \u003ci>London Falling\u003c/i>, Cornell introduced Inspector James Quill, one of a quartet of London cops who manage to acquire the Sight. It’s not a happy prospect, as they’re now able to see the witches and magic of London, and thus privy to their secrets — and more likely to be their prey. They use both their new sensibilities and modern technology to manage the threats of magic and monsters. \u003ci>London Falling\u003c/i> begins with an investigation into a suspect killed by something unseen while in custody. The situation devolves, and Quill and his team find that magic is far too often fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ci>The Severed Streets\u003c/i>, Quill and his team must once again deal with an assailant only they can see. Really, really creepy murders begin to seem ominously like those of Jack the Ripper. An unsettled and unsettling political milieu makes life all kinds of difficult for Quill and company. This is a dark, intense police procedural horror novel. Read with a grimace but finish with a grin.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The real magic in any book happens off the page. It happens when the reader transforms the words into something more than communication, more than facts. To be certain, these books are all entertaining. But more than that, these books will inspire the artist that is any reader to new heights of creation. You create for an audience of one, but join an audience of many. Reading is the ultimate outlet for mass creativity, and the creativity of the masses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10137511/better-than-blockbusters-14-action-packed-books-for-summer","authors":["88"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_73"],"featImg":"arts_10137758","label":"arts_517"},"arts_10136830":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10136830","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10136830","score":null,"sort":[1402491610000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-wants-you-to-volunteer-in-the-arts-this-summer","title":"San Francisco Wants You to Volunteer in the Arts this Summer","publishDate":1402491610,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco Wants You to Volunteer in the Arts this Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":517,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s no secret that the arts community in San Francisco has been fighting an uphill battle against rising costs and shifting culture, and this summer could mark a turning point in the battle. Where will you be? Hopefully not on the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to fight the good fight, join the ranks of these community-oriented organizations working tirelessly to keep art on the streets and culture in the city. This is not just about preserving San Francisco’s art scene but contributing to its constant growth and evolution as well. From daily operations to special events, the art world runs on (wo)man power. Those with and without prior arts knowledge \u003ci>need\u003c/i> apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the major San Francisco museums have volunteer programs, choose to work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmoma.org/get_involved/participate/participate_volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFMOMA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://deyoung.famsf.org/support/volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">de Young Museum\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/about/employment-famsf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/job-volunteer-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contemporary Jewish Museum\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.moadsf.org/support/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of the African Diaspora\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianart.org/get_involved/volunteering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Art Museum\u003c/a>, to name a few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fun way to volunteer — and see great music, dance and theater is to become an usher. The \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/operahouseushersgroup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Opera House\u003c/a> has a program that serves both the city’s opera and ballet. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsymphony.org/Support-Volunteer/Ways-to-Volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Symphony\u003c/a> you can usher or even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Careers-Auditions/Chorus-Auditions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audition\u003c/a> to add your voice to the chorus. Or if you love theater, usher for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/about/opportunities/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Conservatory Theater\u003c/a>. And those are just the big dogs. Street, music, and food festivals also depend on volunteers to keep costs down; their activities often generate funds for local charities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136853\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy San Francisco Community Music Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy San Francisco Community Music Center\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco Community Music Center\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Mission District Branch: 544 Capp St., SF\u003cbr>\nRichmond District Branch: 441 30th Ave., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/about/jobs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Established in 1921, SFCMC is the oldest community arts organization in the Bay Area. It offers \u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/classes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable music classes\u003c/a> to any and all San Francisco residents. The center’s mission is to “make music accessible to people of all ages, musical levels, and financial backgrounds.” In addition to providing music lessons, the center puts on \u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/calendar/action~posterboard/cat_ids~23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerts with local musicians\u003c/a> and hosts fundraising events that require ushers, photographers and videographers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Community Music Center is looking for people who are up for anything, whether that be learning new skills or interacting with the public,” says Marketing Director Sonia Caltvedt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a passion for music and are ready to fulfill this ongoing need for volunteers, you could assist thousands of local students and concert-goers of all ages.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136856\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy SOMArts\" width=\"500\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136856\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts-400x420.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy SOMArts\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>SOMArts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>934 Brannan St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//www.somarts.org/get-involved/volunteer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>With only five regular staff members, SOMArts relies heavily on volunteer support for their events, which often feature 20 to 80 artists at time and as many as 800 attendees in their large gallery space. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volunteers are integral to sustaining this vibrant community of artist,” says Jess Young, SOMArts Communications Director. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, SOMArts volunteers contribute over 2,500 hours installing, gardening, documenting, coordinating and more. \u003ca href=\"//eepurl.com/VkVrb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June’s call for volunteers\u003c/a> presents enticing opportunities for the National Queer Arts Festival early this month and a community gardening day on June 28. SOMArts is also seeking after-dark volunteers for their annual \u003cb>Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party\u003c/b> on July 19, which is expected to draw large crowds for a luminous art exhibit between 9pm and midnight.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136858\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg\" alt=\"Courtesy Southern Exposure\" width=\"426\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg 426w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Southern Exposure\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Southern Exposure\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>3030 20th St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//soex.org/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This non-profit organization supporting artists across disciplines offers exciting summer events for attendees and volunteers alike. In the month of June, five artists will explore hidden waterways from forest to bay for their \u003ca href=\"//soex.org/Exhibit/134.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Off Shore\u003c/b>\u003c/a> exhibit, which will require the help of adventuresome volunteers. Then on July 11, SoEx will require a small army of helpers for the gallery’s biggest annual fundraising event, the \u003ca href=\"//soex.org/monsterdrawingrally.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Monster Drawing Rally\u003c/b>\u003c/a>. Choose from a wide variety of volunteer positions for the opportunity to work with over 120 artists as they take one-hour shifts drawing side-by-side. Help visitors purchase completed drawings, with all proceeds going to SoEx programs. These volunteer opportunities are open to, “anyone who wants to be a part of the arts community,” says Sarah Hotchkiss, SoEx’s Communications and Outreach Director and fellow KQED Arts blogger. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136859\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CounterPulse.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CounterPulse.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Counter Pulse\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136859\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Counter Pulse \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy CounterPulse )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Counter Pulse\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5> Mission St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//counterpulse.org/get-involved/volunteer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This multi-use space has a no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds admission policy. Volunteers help make this policy and low-cost resources for artists a reality. According to its website, “Counter Pulse is building a movement of risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and builds community. We provide space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture.” In the month of June, Counter Pulse will host events as part of \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/?tribe_events=exploding-psycho-diagnostik/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>This is What I Want\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, the fifth annual performance festival about desire. On July 30-31, the space hosts \u003ca href=\"//counterpulse.org/?tribe_events=girlfly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Girlfly\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, a group of 15 innovative girls performing their own dances. Aside from event volunteers, the facility also needs people to lend a hand around the theater and office.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136863\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-1440x939.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10136863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-1440x939.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-400x260.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts \u003ccite>(Courtesy YBCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Yerba Buena Alliance\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>735 Market St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/become-an-intern/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is aptly named because it seems to be at the center of SF’s art happenings this summer. With programs that extend throughout the city and bay, \u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yerba Buena Alliance\u003c/a> connects art venues in an impressive network. On June 7, this network came to life for the \u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/artwalk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Yerba Buena Art Walk\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, which includes 12 galleries and institutions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virginia Grandi, Yerba Buena Alliance’s Executive Director, is looking for help every month for \u003ca href=\"//visityerbabuena.org/events/third-thursdays-in-yerba-buena/#.U4YfiShU5T9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Third Thursdays in Yerba Buena\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, which encourages members of the community to explore connected galleries and museums after work by providing discounts and special events.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>A quick search of \u003ca href=\"http://www.volunteermatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Match\u003c/a> yielded opportunities to work at the Conservatory of Flowers, be a docent at City Hall, help organize the Peace in the Park festival, assist with special projects at Galeria de la Raza, and so much more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think about it, nearly every cultural activity in the city is touched by the volunteer spirit. Culture doesn’t just happen by itself; it’s something we come together to create. What place or activity do you love? Why not find out if they could use some help this summer?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s no secret that the arts community in San Francisco has been fighting an uphill battle against rising costs and shifting culture, and this summer could mark a turning point in the battle. Where will you be? Hopefully not on the sidelines.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048778,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1076},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Wants You to Volunteer in the Arts this Summer | KQED","description":"It’s no secret that the arts community in San Francisco has been fighting an uphill battle against rising costs and shifting culture, and this summer could mark a turning point in the battle. Where will you be? Hopefully not on the sidelines.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"San Francisco Wants You to Volunteer in the Arts this Summer","datePublished":"2014-06-11T13:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:39:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/10136830/san-francisco-wants-you-to-volunteer-in-the-arts-this-summer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s no secret that the arts community in San Francisco has been fighting an uphill battle against rising costs and shifting culture, and this summer could mark a turning point in the battle. Where will you be? Hopefully not on the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to fight the good fight, join the ranks of these community-oriented organizations working tirelessly to keep art on the streets and culture in the city. This is not just about preserving San Francisco’s art scene but contributing to its constant growth and evolution as well. From daily operations to special events, the art world runs on (wo)man power. Those with and without prior arts knowledge \u003ci>need\u003c/i> apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the major San Francisco museums have volunteer programs, choose to work at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmoma.org/get_involved/participate/participate_volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFMOMA\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://deyoung.famsf.org/support/volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">de Young Museum\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/about/employment-famsf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legion of Honor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/job-volunteer-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contemporary Jewish Museum\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.moadsf.org/support/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of the African Diaspora\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianart.org/get_involved/volunteering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Art Museum\u003c/a>, to name a few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fun way to volunteer — and see great music, dance and theater is to become an usher. The \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/operahouseushersgroup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Opera House\u003c/a> has a program that serves both the city’s opera and ballet. At \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsymphony.org/Support-Volunteer/Ways-to-Volunteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Symphony\u003c/a> you can usher or even \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Careers-Auditions/Chorus-Auditions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audition\u003c/a> to add your voice to the chorus. Or if you love theater, usher for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.act-sf.org/home/about/opportunities/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Conservatory Theater\u003c/a>. And those are just the big dogs. Street, music, and food festivals also depend on volunteers to keep costs down; their activities often generate funds for local charities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136853\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy San Francisco Community Music Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SFCMC-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy San Francisco Community Music Center\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco Community Music Center\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Mission District Branch: 544 Capp St., SF\u003cbr>\nRichmond District Branch: 441 30th Ave., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/about/jobs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Established in 1921, SFCMC is the oldest community arts organization in the Bay Area. It offers \u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/classes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affordable music classes\u003c/a> to any and all San Francisco residents. The center’s mission is to “make music accessible to people of all ages, musical levels, and financial backgrounds.” In addition to providing music lessons, the center puts on \u003ca href=\"//sfcmc.org/calendar/action~posterboard/cat_ids~23/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerts with local musicians\u003c/a> and hosts fundraising events that require ushers, photographers and videographers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Community Music Center is looking for people who are up for anything, whether that be learning new skills or interacting with the public,” says Marketing Director Sonia Caltvedt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a passion for music and are ready to fulfill this ongoing need for volunteers, you could assist thousands of local students and concert-goers of all ages.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136856\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy SOMArts\" width=\"500\" height=\"526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136856\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts-400x420.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SOMArts-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy SOMArts\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>SOMArts\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>934 Brannan St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//www.somarts.org/get-involved/volunteer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>With only five regular staff members, SOMArts relies heavily on volunteer support for their events, which often feature 20 to 80 artists at time and as many as 800 attendees in their large gallery space. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volunteers are integral to sustaining this vibrant community of artist,” says Jess Young, SOMArts Communications Director. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, SOMArts volunteers contribute over 2,500 hours installing, gardening, documenting, coordinating and more. \u003ca href=\"//eepurl.com/VkVrb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June’s call for volunteers\u003c/a> presents enticing opportunities for the National Queer Arts Festival early this month and a community gardening day on June 28. SOMArts is also seeking after-dark volunteers for their annual \u003cb>Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party\u003c/b> on July 19, which is expected to draw large crowds for a luminous art exhibit between 9pm and midnight.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136858\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg\" alt=\"Courtesy Southern Exposure\" width=\"426\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpeg 426w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Southern Exposure\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Southern Exposure\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>3030 20th St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//soex.org/volunteer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This non-profit organization supporting artists across disciplines offers exciting summer events for attendees and volunteers alike. In the month of June, five artists will explore hidden waterways from forest to bay for their \u003ca href=\"//soex.org/Exhibit/134.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Off Shore\u003c/b>\u003c/a> exhibit, which will require the help of adventuresome volunteers. Then on July 11, SoEx will require a small army of helpers for the gallery’s biggest annual fundraising event, the \u003ca href=\"//soex.org/monsterdrawingrally.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Monster Drawing Rally\u003c/b>\u003c/a>. Choose from a wide variety of volunteer positions for the opportunity to work with over 120 artists as they take one-hour shifts drawing side-by-side. Help visitors purchase completed drawings, with all proceeds going to SoEx programs. These volunteer opportunities are open to, “anyone who wants to be a part of the arts community,” says Sarah Hotchkiss, SoEx’s Communications and Outreach Director and fellow KQED Arts blogger. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136859\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CounterPulse.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CounterPulse.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Counter Pulse\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136859\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Counter Pulse \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy CounterPulse )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Counter Pulse\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5> Mission St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//counterpulse.org/get-involved/volunteer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This multi-use space has a no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds admission policy. Volunteers help make this policy and low-cost resources for artists a reality. According to its website, “Counter Pulse is building a movement of risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and builds community. We provide space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture.” In the month of June, Counter Pulse will host events as part of \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/?tribe_events=exploding-psycho-diagnostik/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>This is What I Want\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, the fifth annual performance festival about desire. On July 30-31, the space hosts \u003ca href=\"//counterpulse.org/?tribe_events=girlfly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Girlfly\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, a group of 15 innovative girls performing their own dances. Aside from event volunteers, the facility also needs people to lend a hand around the theater and office.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136863\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-1440x939.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10136863\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-1440x939.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-400x260.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA.YOU_Wish_YOU_Were_Here-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts \u003ccite>(Courtesy YBCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Yerba Buena Alliance\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>735 Market St., SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/become-an-intern/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is aptly named because it seems to be at the center of SF’s art happenings this summer. With programs that extend throughout the city and bay, \u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yerba Buena Alliance\u003c/a> connects art venues in an impressive network. On June 7, this network came to life for the \u003ca href=\"//yerbabuena.org/artwalk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Yerba Buena Art Walk\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, which includes 12 galleries and institutions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virginia Grandi, Yerba Buena Alliance’s Executive Director, is looking for help every month for \u003ca href=\"//visityerbabuena.org/events/third-thursdays-in-yerba-buena/#.U4YfiShU5T9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cb>Third Thursdays in Yerba Buena\u003c/b>\u003c/a>, which encourages members of the community to explore connected galleries and museums after work by providing discounts and special events.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>A quick search of \u003ca href=\"http://www.volunteermatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volunteer Match\u003c/a> yielded opportunities to work at the Conservatory of Flowers, be a docent at City Hall, help organize the Peace in the Park festival, assist with special projects at Galeria de la Raza, and so much more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think about it, nearly every cultural activity in the city is touched by the volunteer spirit. Culture doesn’t just happen by itself; it’s something we come together to create. What place or activity do you love? Why not find out if they could use some help this summer?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10136830/san-francisco-wants-you-to-volunteer-in-the-arts-this-summer","authors":["72"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_1003"],"tags":["arts_1006","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_10136864","label":"arts_517"},"pop_12357":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_12357","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"12357","score":null,"sort":[1402340294000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list","title":"Short Stories for Short Shorts Weather: An Anti-Summer Reading List","publishDate":1402340294,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/09/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list/summer-reading/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12359\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by Lily Kelting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer has officially begun, which means it's time to read for fun! My obsession with summer reading began with school-mandated novels; there’s certainly a dreamy, child-like quality to losing yourself in a book...say, five-hundred pages about a colony of rabbits. But let’s be honest about our attention spans these days, and about how most of us are reading: on screens, on public transit. Lately, I would rather have a story punch me in the gut than whisk me away. Maybe this is why short stories are having “a moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10831961/The-irresistible-rise-of-the-short-story.html\">A recent paean to the short story\u003c/a> in\u003cem> The Telegraph\u003c/em> offers novelist Elizabeth Day’s explanation: “Many people struggle to find the time to engage with a full-length novel when they’re dealing with emails every second of every day or having to meet deadlines or rush home to put the kids to bed. A short story offers the perfect antidote -- it’s the equivalent of listening to a single track of music instead of the whole album.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are short stories increasingly popular, they’re also perfect for summer. Short, yes, but a whole lifetime in a moment, or a whole nation in one town. These vignettes don’t necessarily celebrate the beach, the sunshine or the open road, but they have stayed with me since I’ve read them. So for this anti-summer reading list, let’s celebrate how short stories can be so dark and so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-“school’s out”: ZZ Packer, “Our Lady of Peace” from \u003cem>Drinking Coffee Elsewhere \u003c/em>(2003).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School’s out forever,” as told by a burned-out teacher in Baltimore. Lynnea moves from a small-town in Kentucky, where her family is one of the few black families in town. Packer’s descriptions of Lynnea’s travails as a public school teacher ring true to this former educator, but the outlet she finds for her frustrations about the educational system and herself is brutal, funny, and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-beach read: Nadine Gordimer, “Loot” from \u003cem>Loot and Other Stories \u003c/em>(2003).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadine Gordimer’s “Loot” is kind of the opposite of a beach novel; “Loot” is a delightfully slow read. The piece turns slowly in the reader's mind, like beach glass rattled on the shore, and sentences change shape and hue as you reread them (you will reread them). But still, read this powerful story at the beach; it’s a cautionary fable about the power of the ocean as much as about looting, trash, capitalism, and our love of objects. The take-home message might be a \u003cem>memento mori\u003c/em>: “no roses or carnations float,” but maybe it’s also a call to action. Part of the fun of summer is that you know it won’t last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/09/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12361\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box.jpg\" alt=\"jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box\" width=\"443\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box.jpg 543w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box-400x439.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-pulp: Jennifer Egan, “Black Box” by from \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> (2012).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Black Box\" is a thoughtful riff on pulpy, episodic serial sci-fi. Egan’s story is comprised as a series of missives from a female secret agent, “a beauty,” who uses her genetically modified body to transfer classified data from a series of powerful men. It’s set somewhere in the Mediterranean in the near future, and Egan’s crisp writing both clips along like great science fiction and pauses to observe the moonlight glinting on the waves. The story was originally released on Twitter (all the missives are under 140 characters), and what could be a gimmick in fact turns out to be a playful investigation of the limits of the short-short story form and the role of technology in our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-summer romance: Grace Paley, “Wants” from \u003cem>The Collected Stories\u003c/em> (2007).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paley’s “Wants” is only a few pages, but it shows how muscular the short-short form is. Paley alternated between writing short-short stories and poems, and it shows. The story is about a woman running into her ex-husband while returning some library books. But it is also about divorce, not wanting a boat, and deeply wishing you were the kind of person who could manage to return library books on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-driving anywhere: Ghassan Kanafani, \"Men in the Sun\" from \u003cem>Men in the Sun and Other Stories\u003c/em> (1963).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Men in the Sun\" is more of a novella -- a gripping tale of three men being smuggled in a water tanker from Palestinian refugee camps to Kuwait. The meat of the story is cinematic -- the refugees arrange their transport, climb into the metal tank, and wait as their lorry-driver checks in at customs stop after customs stop. The heat is described with breathless intensity. Each of the three men seeking refuge is given a chapter -- one has been stranded in his multiple attempts to reach Kuwait, one is old and chances the journey to support his children, and the youngest has been charged with supporting his family after his elder brother married a Kuwaiti woman and stopped sending funds. The half-expected conclusion is witnessed only by the ever-present sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-sunshine: Alice Munro, “Amundsen” from \u003cem>Dear Life\u003c/em> (2012).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cold feels cold this summer, try reading about Northern Canada. Last year’s Literature Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro knows her way around a short story. I love “Amundsen” in particular because Munro tips us off in the very first encounter between the protagonist schoolteacher and the country surgeon; this is going to be a whole Russian novel in miniature, complete with heartbreak, courtship mixed with cruelty, brittle trees and a frozen lake. Munro’s Canadian farmlands are replaced here with a TB sanitarium school in the 1940s. Yet, as the story concludes, “Nothing changes, apparently, about love.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A summer reading list for all of us with short attention spans!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1402340300,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1026},"headData":{"title":"Short Stories for Short Shorts Weather: An Anti-Summer Reading List | KQED","description":"A summer reading list for all of us with short attention spans!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Short Stories for Short Shorts Weather: An Anti-Summer Reading List","datePublished":"2014-06-09T18:58:14.000Z","dateModified":"2014-06-09T18:58:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"12357 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=12357","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/09/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list/","disqusTitle":"Short Stories for Short Shorts Weather: An Anti-Summer Reading List","path":"/pop/12357/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/09/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list/summer-reading/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12359\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/summer-reading-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by Lily Kelting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summer has officially begun, which means it's time to read for fun! My obsession with summer reading began with school-mandated novels; there’s certainly a dreamy, child-like quality to losing yourself in a book...say, five-hundred pages about a colony of rabbits. But let’s be honest about our attention spans these days, and about how most of us are reading: on screens, on public transit. Lately, I would rather have a story punch me in the gut than whisk me away. Maybe this is why short stories are having “a moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10831961/The-irresistible-rise-of-the-short-story.html\">A recent paean to the short story\u003c/a> in\u003cem> The Telegraph\u003c/em> offers novelist Elizabeth Day’s explanation: “Many people struggle to find the time to engage with a full-length novel when they’re dealing with emails every second of every day or having to meet deadlines or rush home to put the kids to bed. A short story offers the perfect antidote -- it’s the equivalent of listening to a single track of music instead of the whole album.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are short stories increasingly popular, they’re also perfect for summer. Short, yes, but a whole lifetime in a moment, or a whole nation in one town. These vignettes don’t necessarily celebrate the beach, the sunshine or the open road, but they have stayed with me since I’ve read them. So for this anti-summer reading list, let’s celebrate how short stories can be so dark and so satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-“school’s out”: ZZ Packer, “Our Lady of Peace” from \u003cem>Drinking Coffee Elsewhere \u003c/em>(2003).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“School’s out forever,” as told by a burned-out teacher in Baltimore. Lynnea moves from a small-town in Kentucky, where her family is one of the few black families in town. Packer’s descriptions of Lynnea’s travails as a public school teacher ring true to this former educator, but the outlet she finds for her frustrations about the educational system and herself is brutal, funny, and shocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-beach read: Nadine Gordimer, “Loot” from \u003cem>Loot and Other Stories \u003c/em>(2003).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadine Gordimer’s “Loot” is kind of the opposite of a beach novel; “Loot” is a delightfully slow read. The piece turns slowly in the reader's mind, like beach glass rattled on the shore, and sentences change shape and hue as you reread them (you will reread them). But still, read this powerful story at the beach; it’s a cautionary fable about the power of the ocean as much as about looting, trash, capitalism, and our love of objects. The take-home message might be a \u003cem>memento mori\u003c/em>: “no roses or carnations float,” but maybe it’s also a call to action. Part of the fun of summer is that you know it won’t last forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/09/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12361\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box.jpg\" alt=\"jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box\" width=\"443\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box.jpg 543w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/jennifer-egan-twitter-roman-black-box-400x439.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-pulp: Jennifer Egan, “Black Box” by from \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> (2012).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Black Box\" is a thoughtful riff on pulpy, episodic serial sci-fi. Egan’s story is comprised as a series of missives from a female secret agent, “a beauty,” who uses her genetically modified body to transfer classified data from a series of powerful men. It’s set somewhere in the Mediterranean in the near future, and Egan’s crisp writing both clips along like great science fiction and pauses to observe the moonlight glinting on the waves. The story was originally released on Twitter (all the missives are under 140 characters), and what could be a gimmick in fact turns out to be a playful investigation of the limits of the short-short story form and the role of technology in our lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-summer romance: Grace Paley, “Wants” from \u003cem>The Collected Stories\u003c/em> (2007).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paley’s “Wants” is only a few pages, but it shows how muscular the short-short form is. Paley alternated between writing short-short stories and poems, and it shows. The story is about a woman running into her ex-husband while returning some library books. But it is also about divorce, not wanting a boat, and deeply wishing you were the kind of person who could manage to return library books on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-driving anywhere: Ghassan Kanafani, \"Men in the Sun\" from \u003cem>Men in the Sun and Other Stories\u003c/em> (1963).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Men in the Sun\" is more of a novella -- a gripping tale of three men being smuggled in a water tanker from Palestinian refugee camps to Kuwait. The meat of the story is cinematic -- the refugees arrange their transport, climb into the metal tank, and wait as their lorry-driver checks in at customs stop after customs stop. The heat is described with breathless intensity. Each of the three men seeking refuge is given a chapter -- one has been stranded in his multiple attempts to reach Kuwait, one is old and chances the journey to support his children, and the youngest has been charged with supporting his family after his elder brother married a Kuwaiti woman and stopped sending funds. The half-expected conclusion is witnessed only by the ever-present sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anti-sunshine: Alice Munro, “Amundsen” from \u003cem>Dear Life\u003c/em> (2012).\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cold feels cold this summer, try reading about Northern Canada. Last year’s Literature Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro knows her way around a short story. I love “Amundsen” in particular because Munro tips us off in the very first encounter between the protagonist schoolteacher and the country surgeon; this is going to be a whole Russian novel in miniature, complete with heartbreak, courtship mixed with cruelty, brittle trees and a frozen lake. Munro’s Canadian farmlands are replaced here with a TB sanitarium school in the 1940s. Yet, as the story concludes, “Nothing changes, apparently, about love.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/12357/short-stories-for-short-shorts-weather-an-anti-summer-reading-list","authors":["2421"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_108","pop_696"],"featImg":"pop_12359","label":"pop"},"arts_10137100":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10137100","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10137100","score":null,"sort":[1401824201000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-on-your-summer-reading-list","title":"Audience Picks: What's on Your Summer Reading List?","publishDate":1401824201,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Audience Picks: What’s on Your Summer Reading List? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>The days are getting longer and, for many, summer vacations are on the horizon. That means more time to settle in with a good book. What book would you recommend most for a long summer afternoon? \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19\" target=\"_self\" class=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener\"> …read more\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19\" target=\"_self\" title=\"What's on Your Summer Reading List?\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum Books\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The days are getting longer and, for many, summer vacations are on the horizon. That means more time to settle in with a good book. What book would you recommend most for a long summer afternoon? \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19\" target=\"_self\" class=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener\"> ...read more\u003c/a>","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048825,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":4,"wordCount":44},"headData":{"title":"Audience Picks: What's on Your Summer Reading List? | KQED","description":"The days are getting longer and, for many, summer vacations are on the horizon. That means more time to settle in with a good book. 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What book would you recommend most for a long summer afternoon? \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19\" target=\"_self\" class=\"rssmi_more\" rel=\"noopener\"> …read more\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19\" target=\"_self\" title=\"What's on Your Summer Reading List?\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum Books\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201406031000?pid=RD19","authors":["92"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_73"],"featImg":"arts_10137101","label":"arts"},"arts_10136754":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10136754","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10136754","score":null,"sort":[1401714047000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bragging-rights-great-lit-perfect-for-summer-reading","title":"Bragging Rights : Great Lit Perfect for Summer Reading","publishDate":1401714047,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bragging Rights : Great Lit Perfect for Summer Reading | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":517,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>When we think of summer books, we think of the lightweight fare found at the airport or discovered on the shelves of a vacation rental. Lurid titles with lurid covers — artfully hidden behind unread copies of \u003ci>The New Yorker\u003c/i> — are guiltily consumed like deep fried Twinkies in the summer heat, which is how it is supposed to be. After all, sun, sand and distractions of all sorts surround you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of books that will grip your brain \u003cem>and \u003c/em>make your modest investment in Costco sunglass readers well worthwhile. These are books that you can read under the umbrella and brag about over your daiquiri in the evening. The ten books that follow — all published since last summer (including one significant reissue)— will let you hold your reading material high and use that \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> as a cocktail coaster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-400x612.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Atkinson, Life After Life\" width=\"400\" height=\"612\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136755\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-400x612.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-196x300.jpg 196w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Life After Life\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kate Atkinson\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Kate Atkinson is best known for her brainy, broody Jackson Brodie mysteries, but her latest uses a time-loop motif to explore the life of Ursula Todd, born and re-born shortly before the first World War in a rural English manor house. Blessed and cursed with far more than nine lives, Ursula’s stories explore the stuff of life and offer a variety of visions of the world during two wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Life After Life\u003c/em> is one of those big books that reads like lightning, thanks to Atkinson’s invisible prose and her supple use of the toolkit of fantastic time-travel fiction. We see characters and scenes play out in entertainingly different permutations. Atkinson, having established that her character is being reborn, is happy to dispatch her in a series of sometimes darkly humorous deaths. It’s packing in the literary prizes already, but you’ll never know you’re reading great literature.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-400x598.jpg\" alt=\"The Most Dangerous Book\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136756\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-400x598.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-200x300.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Ken Birmingham\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The very thought is almost unthinkable. When James Joyce’s revolutionary novel \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em> was published in 1922, it was routed to the fires of \u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em>. The British wanted all copies burned. This wasn’t just censorship, it was literary annihilation. While facts of James Joyce’s life may be well known, the facts of the battle to get his most important book published are not. Kevin Birmingham’s \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book\u003c/em> may address one story, it speaks to many since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were it not for the incredible level of research that went into the book, you might think you were reading a novel; this is narrative history at its page-turning best. Birmingham gives readers a nice précis of Joyce’s battle to get the book written and then goes down-and-dirty for the fight to get it read. If you’re reading this list, reading matters to you, books matter to you and you might understand that any book you hold could easily become \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book\u003c/em>.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg\" alt=\"The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\" width=\"391\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg 391w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Joel Dicker\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The winner of three prizes in France, Joel Dicker’s first novel, \u003cem>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,\u003c/em> offers a nice mirror-like effect and an intense, well-crafted mystery, wrapped in literature and writing. Marcus Goldman is a young novelist whose first book was a runaway success (like this one). But his second novel is stubbornly proving to be vaporware, and the publishers are getting antsy. So is he; perhaps he should chill out with his old professor, Harry Quebert. A trip to his mentor’s Somerset mansion is just the ticket, until a body pops up and is traced to a murder from 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a big book with a small cast, lots of layers with a variety of suspects who have the means, the motive and the opportunity. Goldman wants to make Harry’s story his next acclaimed bestseller. That would be the first novel we’re reading now. Come for the big, literary mystery, and brag about the prizes when you’re done. Vacation time at a Somerset mansion not included.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"The Possibilities\" width=\"400\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-197x300.jpg 197w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Possibilities\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kaui Hart Hemmings\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>You’ll not find a better, more bitter source for dark-hearted literary laughter this summer than Kaui Hart Hemmings’ \u003cem>The Possibilities\u003c/em>. Sarah St. John is attempting to return to her job as a local infomercial newscaster in the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, three months after her twenty-two year-old son died in an avalanche. It’s not going well. She fast-tracked the stages of grief and now she’s at the one they fail to mention, revelation. She’s finding out quite a bit about her son, most of which she might have preferred not to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with her novel \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em>, Hemmings has it both ways. She’s as entertaining and insightful as hell, with an emphasis on the fire. Sarah’s father is a charmer, her best friend is both a busybody and a powerhouse, and Sarah is otherwise surrounded by a crowd of opinions and judgments, most of them unflattering. If someone quizzes you about the sweet, summery cover, there’s likely a zinger right there on the page in front of you to shoot back with. All heartbreaks should be this hilarious.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-400x620.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Paperclip\" width=\"400\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136759\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-400x620.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-193x300.jpg 193w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Annie Jacobsen\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In the final days of World War II, the race was on for Nazi treasure; not the paintings they stole, but rather the masterminds who created the V2 rocket-bomb and chemical weapons from Sarin to Zyklon-B. Annie Jacobsen’s \u003cem>Operation Paperclip\u003c/em> explores those days at a breathtaking pace with astonishingly exciting scenes and painstakingly re-created details from a variety of records not so easily obtained even now under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History offers its own version of the toe-tapping World War II thriller here, etching in our brains scenes of the horror and cunning of those we recruited to run our glorious space program. Jacobsen wrangles a huge multi-national cast with ease, and turns a complicated back-story into seriously thrilling reading. Anyone who saw those first steps on the moon, stayed up to watch a rocket launch or built a Revelle model of the Gemini space capsule will find themselves enmeshed in revisionary nostalgia. Plus, the title is imposing enough to fend off any questions about light summer reading.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-400x593.jpg\" alt=\"The Dubliners\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-400x593.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-202x300.jpg 202w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Dubliners\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>James Joyce\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Before he set forth to Change Western Literature As We Know It and got himself in all the hot water associated with \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em>, Joyce wrote what is arguably the most important single-author short story collection in the English language, \u003cem>The Dubliners\u003c/em>. All the skill that made \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em> so revolutionary went into short, smart stories exploring the inner and outer lives of the people of Dublin. It’s the centenary of this seminal collection, and Penguin Books has given us a gorgeous new trade paperback edition to read at the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Joyce? Beach reading? Just sink in to \u003cem>The Sisters\u003c/em> to see that talent cuts two ways, and allows a brilliant artist to be an engaging and entertaining storyteller, who just happens to evoke psychological insights we’re still trying to sort out 100 years later. As a bonus, you can read the final short story here, \u003cem>The Dead\u003c/em>, and then watch John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation starring Anjelica Huston.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer-400x625.jpg\" alt=\"the psychopath whisperer\" width=\"400\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136761\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer-400x625.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of those Without Conscience\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kent A. Kiehl\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As a grad student about to stake out a career, Kent A. Kiehl, PhD, began “living the dream” (an actual quote from the book) by interviewing psychopathic murderers incarcerated in a maximum-security prison in Canada. \u003cem>The Psychopath Whisperer\u003c/em> is his story and the story of the science he helped to create, the study of psychopathy. It’s a compelling mix of memoir, science-as-science, the business of science, true crime and technological history. Kiehl was so keen to study the brains of the psychopaths he was interviewing that he eventually managed to get Siemens to build a custom, mobile MRI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a stunning chapter that analyzes the assassins who killed two presidents, John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln) and Charles Julius Guiteau (Garfield). Kiehl sets up a variety of threads in this book, tracking the inmates, patients, technology, and colleagues. Separately it’s all fascinating stuff, but he brings it together in a stunning denouement. Groundbreaking science should always be this intense and compelling; or, maybe not.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"think like a freak\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Think Like a Freak\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Get inside the mind of a freakonomicist (it’s a real word, now!) and learn how to unlearn whatever it is that is holding you behind, jamming you up or raining on your parade. Levitt and Dubner want nothing less than to change not your mind, but the way you \u003cem>use\u003c/em> your mind. Self-help books are always welcome even on the beach, and this is the most upper-crust version you can imagine, or rather not imagine, at least, not until after you’ve read it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt and Dubner are perilously smart writers who know how to get new thoughts inside even the most recalcitrant and entrenched brains. When they spring the great ideas on you, they’ve already smoothed the way with smart prose, and an aphorism for just about every paragraph in the book. They should (and probably will, knowing who butters their bread) publish a limited edition with everything highlighted, to save you the trouble.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"the serpent of venice\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-198x300.jpg 198w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Christopher Moore\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>When you’re not laughing, you’ll be giggling, and when not laughing or giggling, you’ll be awed by the sheer audacity of Christopher Moore’s \u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em>, which manages to riff off of not one, not two but three, count ’em, three Shakespeare plays, Edgar Allen Poe and more history than a season of PBS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s hilarious, but it is also imaginative and creepy when it needs to be. On the outside it looks like a goofy monster comedy, but on the inside, \u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em> comes in a really gorgeous first printing in two colors of ink, like one of those high-falutin’ leather editions. This offers up some insight into the reading experience as well. It’s the best of both worlds, great literature and great fun. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg\" alt=\"the noble hustle\" width=\"371\" height=\"552\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg 371w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Colson Whitehead\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to resist the premise or the prose. The premise: \u003cem>Grantland\u003c/em> magazine sends Colson Whitehead, a guy who knows a bit about poker from years of friendly for-money games, to the World Series of Poker and asks him to write about it. Read the first paragraph, and you may not know whether it was the green pill or the red pill, but the world’s no longer the world. Colson Whitehead finds a great groove and the rest of the book is rock and roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitehead begins the book as a freshly divorced dad, dotingly dropping off his daughter at school then taking the bus to Atlantic City for a hard day and night of gambling practice. He takes on a poker \u003cem>sensei\u003c/em>, an ass-kicking middle-aged housewife type, and worries about his role as the “Magic Negro,” who will bestow her with a Hollywood blessing. The practice is fascinating even if you’ve never watched or rarely played poker. Whitehead’s writing is compacted and engagingly entertaining. \u003cem>The Noble Hustle\u003c/em> lives up to its title, covering poker, beef jerky and death in some depth. Like summer, you’ll miss it when it’s gone, but Whitehead has an extensive back catalogue to mine.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>This list just skims the surface of summer reading that is great literature. Even the frothiest romance, the slickest mystery, the elf-filled fantasy, the girly apocalypse, the celebrity schmooze or the latest how-to-build-an-igloo-on-the-beach book offer something that no television show, radio program, or 3D, 2D, 1D movie can match. That would be reading, that particular experience where you look at the page and turn the words into worlds, where you are in a very real sense the artist and not just the audience. Who needs to brag, really? Just enjoy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"10 books to read at the beach and brag about over daiquiris.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048835,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":2094},"headData":{"title":"Bragging Rights : Great Lit Perfect for Summer Reading | KQED","description":"10 books to read at the beach and brag about over daiquiris.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Bragging Rights : Great Lit Perfect for Summer Reading","datePublished":"2014-06-02T13:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:40:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/10136754/bragging-rights-great-lit-perfect-for-summer-reading","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When we think of summer books, we think of the lightweight fare found at the airport or discovered on the shelves of a vacation rental. Lurid titles with lurid covers — artfully hidden behind unread copies of \u003ci>The New Yorker\u003c/i> — are guiltily consumed like deep fried Twinkies in the summer heat, which is how it is supposed to be. After all, sun, sand and distractions of all sorts surround you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are plenty of books that will grip your brain \u003cem>and \u003c/em>make your modest investment in Costco sunglass readers well worthwhile. These are books that you can read under the umbrella and brag about over your daiquiri in the evening. The ten books that follow — all published since last summer (including one significant reissue)— will let you hold your reading material high and use that \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> as a cocktail coaster. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-400x612.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Atkinson, Life After Life\" width=\"400\" height=\"612\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136755\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-400x612.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life-196x300.jpg 196w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/atkinson-life_after_life.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Life After Life\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kate Atkinson\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Kate Atkinson is best known for her brainy, broody Jackson Brodie mysteries, but her latest uses a time-loop motif to explore the life of Ursula Todd, born and re-born shortly before the first World War in a rural English manor house. Blessed and cursed with far more than nine lives, Ursula’s stories explore the stuff of life and offer a variety of visions of the world during two wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Life After Life\u003c/em> is one of those big books that reads like lightning, thanks to Atkinson’s invisible prose and her supple use of the toolkit of fantastic time-travel fiction. We see characters and scenes play out in entertainingly different permutations. Atkinson, having established that her character is being reborn, is happy to dispatch her in a series of sometimes darkly humorous deaths. It’s packing in the literary prizes already, but you’ll never know you’re reading great literature.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-400x598.jpg\" alt=\"The Most Dangerous Book\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136756\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-400x598.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book-200x300.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/birmingham-the_most_dangerous_book.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Ken Birmingham\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The very thought is almost unthinkable. When James Joyce’s revolutionary novel \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em> was published in 1922, it was routed to the fires of \u003cem>Fahrenheit 451\u003c/em>. The British wanted all copies burned. This wasn’t just censorship, it was literary annihilation. While facts of James Joyce’s life may be well known, the facts of the battle to get his most important book published are not. Kevin Birmingham’s \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book\u003c/em> may address one story, it speaks to many since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were it not for the incredible level of research that went into the book, you might think you were reading a novel; this is narrative history at its page-turning best. Birmingham gives readers a nice précis of Joyce’s battle to get the book written and then goes down-and-dirty for the fight to get it read. If you’re reading this list, reading matters to you, books matter to you and you might understand that any book you hold could easily become \u003cem>The Most Dangerous Book\u003c/em>.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg\" alt=\"The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\" width=\"391\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136757\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair.jpg 391w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/dicker-the_truth_about_the_harry_qubert_affair-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Joel Dicker\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The winner of three prizes in France, Joel Dicker’s first novel, \u003cem>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,\u003c/em> offers a nice mirror-like effect and an intense, well-crafted mystery, wrapped in literature and writing. Marcus Goldman is a young novelist whose first book was a runaway success (like this one). But his second novel is stubbornly proving to be vaporware, and the publishers are getting antsy. So is he; perhaps he should chill out with his old professor, Harry Quebert. A trip to his mentor’s Somerset mansion is just the ticket, until a body pops up and is traced to a murder from 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a big book with a small cast, lots of layers with a variety of suspects who have the means, the motive and the opportunity. Goldman wants to make Harry’s story his next acclaimed bestseller. That would be the first novel we’re reading now. Come for the big, literary mystery, and brag about the prizes when you’re done. Vacation time at a Somerset mansion not included.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"The Possibilities\" width=\"400\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136758\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities-197x300.jpg 197w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/hemmings-the_possibilities.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Possibilities\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kaui Hart Hemmings\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>You’ll not find a better, more bitter source for dark-hearted literary laughter this summer than Kaui Hart Hemmings’ \u003cem>The Possibilities\u003c/em>. Sarah St. John is attempting to return to her job as a local infomercial newscaster in the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, three months after her twenty-two year-old son died in an avalanche. It’s not going well. She fast-tracked the stages of grief and now she’s at the one they fail to mention, revelation. She’s finding out quite a bit about her son, most of which she might have preferred not to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with her novel \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em>, Hemmings has it both ways. She’s as entertaining and insightful as hell, with an emphasis on the fire. Sarah’s father is a charmer, her best friend is both a busybody and a powerhouse, and Sarah is otherwise surrounded by a crowd of opinions and judgments, most of them unflattering. If someone quizzes you about the sweet, summery cover, there’s likely a zinger right there on the page in front of you to shoot back with. All heartbreaks should be this hilarious.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-400x620.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Paperclip\" width=\"400\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136759\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-400x620.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip-193x300.jpg 193w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/jacobsen-operation_paperclip.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Annie Jacobsen\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In the final days of World War II, the race was on for Nazi treasure; not the paintings they stole, but rather the masterminds who created the V2 rocket-bomb and chemical weapons from Sarin to Zyklon-B. Annie Jacobsen’s \u003cem>Operation Paperclip\u003c/em> explores those days at a breathtaking pace with astonishingly exciting scenes and painstakingly re-created details from a variety of records not so easily obtained even now under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History offers its own version of the toe-tapping World War II thriller here, etching in our brains scenes of the horror and cunning of those we recruited to run our glorious space program. Jacobsen wrangles a huge multi-national cast with ease, and turns a complicated back-story into seriously thrilling reading. Anyone who saw those first steps on the moon, stayed up to watch a rocket launch or built a Revelle model of the Gemini space capsule will find themselves enmeshed in revisionary nostalgia. Plus, the title is imposing enough to fend off any questions about light summer reading.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-400x593.jpg\" alt=\"The Dubliners\" width=\"400\" height=\"593\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-400x593.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners-202x300.jpg 202w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/joyce-the_dubliners.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Dubliners\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>James Joyce\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Before he set forth to Change Western Literature As We Know It and got himself in all the hot water associated with \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em>, Joyce wrote what is arguably the most important single-author short story collection in the English language, \u003cem>The Dubliners\u003c/em>. All the skill that made \u003cem>Ulysses\u003c/em> so revolutionary went into short, smart stories exploring the inner and outer lives of the people of Dublin. It’s the centenary of this seminal collection, and Penguin Books has given us a gorgeous new trade paperback edition to read at the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Joyce? Beach reading? Just sink in to \u003cem>The Sisters\u003c/em> to see that talent cuts two ways, and allows a brilliant artist to be an engaging and entertaining storyteller, who just happens to evoke psychological insights we’re still trying to sort out 100 years later. As a bonus, you can read the final short story here, \u003cem>The Dead\u003c/em>, and then watch John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation starring Anjelica Huston.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer-400x625.jpg\" alt=\"the psychopath whisperer\" width=\"400\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136761\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer-400x625.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/kiehl-the_psychopath_whisperer.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of those Without Conscience\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Kent A. Kiehl\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As a grad student about to stake out a career, Kent A. Kiehl, PhD, began “living the dream” (an actual quote from the book) by interviewing psychopathic murderers incarcerated in a maximum-security prison in Canada. \u003cem>The Psychopath Whisperer\u003c/em> is his story and the story of the science he helped to create, the study of psychopathy. It’s a compelling mix of memoir, science-as-science, the business of science, true crime and technological history. Kiehl was so keen to study the brains of the psychopaths he was interviewing that he eventually managed to get Siemens to build a custom, mobile MRI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a stunning chapter that analyzes the assassins who killed two presidents, John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln) and Charles Julius Guiteau (Garfield). Kiehl sets up a variety of threads in this book, tracking the inmates, patients, technology, and colleagues. Separately it’s all fascinating stuff, but he brings it together in a stunning denouement. Groundbreaking science should always be this intense and compelling; or, maybe not.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"think like a freak\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/levitt_dubner-think_like_a_freak.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Think Like a Freak\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Get inside the mind of a freakonomicist (it’s a real word, now!) and learn how to unlearn whatever it is that is holding you behind, jamming you up or raining on your parade. Levitt and Dubner want nothing less than to change not your mind, but the way you \u003cem>use\u003c/em> your mind. Self-help books are always welcome even on the beach, and this is the most upper-crust version you can imagine, or rather not imagine, at least, not until after you’ve read it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levitt and Dubner are perilously smart writers who know how to get new thoughts inside even the most recalcitrant and entrenched brains. When they spring the great ideas on you, they’ve already smoothed the way with smart prose, and an aphorism for just about every paragraph in the book. They should (and probably will, knowing who butters their bread) publish a limited edition with everything highlighted, to save you the trouble.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"the serpent of venice\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10136763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice-198x300.jpg 198w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/moore-the_serpent_of_venice.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Christopher Moore\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>When you’re not laughing, you’ll be giggling, and when not laughing or giggling, you’ll be awed by the sheer audacity of Christopher Moore’s \u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em>, which manages to riff off of not one, not two but three, count ’em, three Shakespeare plays, Edgar Allen Poe and more history than a season of PBS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, it’s hilarious, but it is also imaginative and creepy when it needs to be. On the outside it looks like a goofy monster comedy, but on the inside, \u003cem>The Serpent of Venice\u003c/em> comes in a really gorgeous first printing in two colors of ink, like one of those high-falutin’ leather editions. This offers up some insight into the reading experience as well. It’s the best of both worlds, great literature and great fun. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg\" alt=\"the noble hustle\" width=\"371\" height=\"552\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136764\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle.jpg 371w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/whitehead-the_noble_hustle-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Colson Whitehead\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>It’s impossible to resist the premise or the prose. The premise: \u003cem>Grantland\u003c/em> magazine sends Colson Whitehead, a guy who knows a bit about poker from years of friendly for-money games, to the World Series of Poker and asks him to write about it. Read the first paragraph, and you may not know whether it was the green pill or the red pill, but the world’s no longer the world. Colson Whitehead finds a great groove and the rest of the book is rock and roll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitehead begins the book as a freshly divorced dad, dotingly dropping off his daughter at school then taking the bus to Atlantic City for a hard day and night of gambling practice. He takes on a poker \u003cem>sensei\u003c/em>, an ass-kicking middle-aged housewife type, and worries about his role as the “Magic Negro,” who will bestow her with a Hollywood blessing. The practice is fascinating even if you’ve never watched or rarely played poker. Whitehead’s writing is compacted and engagingly entertaining. \u003cem>The Noble Hustle\u003c/em> lives up to its title, covering poker, beef jerky and death in some depth. Like summer, you’ll miss it when it’s gone, but Whitehead has an extensive back catalogue to mine.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>This list just skims the surface of summer reading that is great literature. Even the frothiest romance, the slickest mystery, the elf-filled fantasy, the girly apocalypse, the celebrity schmooze or the latest how-to-build-an-igloo-on-the-beach book offer something that no television show, radio program, or 3D, 2D, 1D movie can match. That would be reading, that particular experience where you look at the page and turn the words into worlds, where you are in a very real sense the artist and not just the audience. Who needs to brag, really? Just enjoy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10136754/bragging-rights-great-lit-perfect-for-summer-reading","authors":["88"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_73"],"featImg":"arts_10136940","label":"arts_517"},"arts_10136238":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10136238","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10136238","score":null,"sort":[1401282051000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-ways-to-get-creative-this-summer","title":"Five Ways to Get Creative This Summer","publishDate":1401282051,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Five Ways to Get Creative This Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":139,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Our video series, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/\">Art School\u003c/a>, is all about inspiring our readers to get creative through DIY projects demonstrated by our favorite Bay Area artists. Check out five of our greatest Art School hits and follow along as the artists show you how to use your creativity to its fullest. Afterward, why not hit the town and discover related art venues where you can explore your new favorite medium even further? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following pairings of crafty videos and local art spaces are fun for all ages, and we want to see what you make and discover. Post photos or videos of your creations, or link to your favorite arty places and tag #KQEDArtSchool. Share your creative essence with the world, and we’ll re-Tweet, share, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Beatbox\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rashidi Omari Bird is a Hip-hop artist and educator who will have you spitting “Boots the Cat” all the way home. Pick up beatboxing in a few short minutes via this video, then start planning your debut performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9SV325ItY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay kids can take classes with Rashidi and other artists at \u003ca href=\"http://www.destinyarts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Destiny Arts Center\u003c/a> in Oakland. And anyone can get their Hip-hop groove on for a reasonable price at \u003ca href=\"http://www.dancemission.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Dance\u003c/a>. (Or just make a vine of your latest beatboxing skills and tag us, #KQEDArtSchool.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Animation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Kirsten Lepore’s stop-motion films are innovative and moving. Check out \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/5mVEapKnS1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bottle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/o1GyJpnTN1I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweet Dreams\u003c/a>, and her Art School \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/mBD3EK0v0AM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview\u003c/a> where she talks about the making of those films. Then check out Lepore’s newest film, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/cZ9d4MHqEzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Move Mountain\u003c/a>, and our how-to video on making your own stop-motion stories. Her set-up is sophisticated, but you can easily animate using a phone camera and apps like \u003ca href=\"http://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iStopMotion\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://flipagram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flipagram\u003c/a>, or any video editing software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSFoLX3GhVY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop-motion is one form of animation, but you can also explore the roots of the most influential hand-drawn, early animation art at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.waltdisney.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walt Disney Family Museum\u003c/a>. The current exhibition on the legendary \u003ca href=\"http://www.waltdisney.org/mary-blair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Blair\u003c/a>, one of Disney’s first female artists, is a solid introduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonus animation inspiration: We’ve been having fun using \u003ca href=\"https://vine.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vine\u003c/a> and Instagram to make little videos of abstract patterns, inspired by a recent KQED Art School alum, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/FSLil-iHDSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jodie Mack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Make Paper\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You know that beautiful paper that they sell at Flax or Paper Source that’s kind of expensive? Make your own using cotton fiber and a blender! Multimedia artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=123946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meryl Pataky\u003c/a> shows you how to make your own speckled, charming handmade paper in this Art School feature. The cotton fiber may look like it’s already in paper form, but the wet blending process and adding \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sizing\u003c/a> is what makes the paper ink-able.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf6cCz3d9ms]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, take that paper and go make a book! \u003ca href=\"https://sfcb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Center for the Book\u003c/a> knows what’s up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Draw Comics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, take that book and start drawing in it! Q: Can you draw a female ninja? A: Yes! “Super famous cartoonist” \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=114394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thien Pham\u003c/a> will show you how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-et4Njk_nWc]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After developing your characters, make them tell a story — Pham has some \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/MjvLgLvGZiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tips on laying out a comic strip\u003c/a>. For more cartooning lessons, consult another local artist, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=86118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sirron Norris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, after getting loose with your markers, you should hit up the \u003ca href=\"http://cartoonart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cartoon Art Museum\u003c/a> for further inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. DRUM CIRCLES\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sample some African drum beats with members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=116019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West African Music and Dance Ensemble\u003c/a>, and start jamming. Nothing is stopping you — you don’t even need drums as you can make a beat on any surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKuylBWo6Ak]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwesi Anku teaches African dance at the \u003ca href=\"http://eastbaycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Center for Performing Arts\u003c/a> in Richmond and classes are open. Bonus: Nearby the EBCPA is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.therac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond Art Center\u003c/a> where you can check out gallery shows and take art classes.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Check out five of our greatest Art School instructional videos and follow along as the artists show you how to use your creativity to its fullest. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048864,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":679},"headData":{"title":"Five Ways to Get Creative This Summer | KQED","description":"Check out five of our greatest Art School instructional videos and follow along as the artists show you how to use your creativity to its fullest. 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Afterward, why not hit the town and discover related art venues where you can explore your new favorite medium even further? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following pairings of crafty videos and local art spaces are fun for all ages, and we want to see what you make and discover. Post photos or videos of your creations, or link to your favorite arty places and tag #KQEDArtSchool. Share your creative essence with the world, and we’ll re-Tweet, share, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Beatbox\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rashidi Omari Bird is a Hip-hop artist and educator who will have you spitting “Boots the Cat” all the way home. Pick up beatboxing in a few short minutes via this video, then start planning your debut performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ch9SV325ItY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ch9SV325ItY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay kids can take classes with Rashidi and other artists at \u003ca href=\"http://www.destinyarts.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Destiny Arts Center\u003c/a> in Oakland. 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The current exhibition on the legendary \u003ca href=\"http://www.waltdisney.org/mary-blair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Blair\u003c/a>, one of Disney’s first female artists, is a solid introduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonus animation inspiration: We’ve been having fun using \u003ca href=\"https://vine.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vine\u003c/a> and Instagram to make little videos of abstract patterns, inspired by a recent KQED Art School alum, \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/FSLil-iHDSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jodie Mack\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Make Paper\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You know that beautiful paper that they sell at Flax or Paper Source that’s kind of expensive? Make your own using cotton fiber and a blender! Multimedia artist \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=123946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meryl Pataky\u003c/a> shows you how to make your own speckled, charming handmade paper in this Art School feature. The cotton fiber may look like it’s already in paper form, but the wet blending process and adding \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sizing\u003c/a> is what makes the paper ink-able.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Tf6cCz3d9ms'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Tf6cCz3d9ms'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, take that paper and go make a book! \u003ca href=\"https://sfcb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Center for the Book\u003c/a> knows what’s up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. Draw Comics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, take that book and start drawing in it! Q: Can you draw a female ninja? A: Yes! “Super famous cartoonist” \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=114394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thien Pham\u003c/a> will show you how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-et4Njk_nWc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-et4Njk_nWc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After developing your characters, make them tell a story — Pham has some \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/MjvLgLvGZiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tips on laying out a comic strip\u003c/a>. For more cartooning lessons, consult another local artist, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=86118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sirron Norris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, after getting loose with your markers, you should hit up the \u003ca href=\"http://cartoonart.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cartoon Art Museum\u003c/a> for further inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. DRUM CIRCLES\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sample some African drum beats with members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/artschool/episode.jsp?essid=116019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West African Music and Dance Ensemble\u003c/a>, and start jamming. Nothing is stopping you — you don’t even need drums as you can make a beat on any surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gKuylBWo6Ak'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gKuylBWo6Ak'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwesi Anku teaches African dance at the \u003ca href=\"http://eastbaycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Center for Performing Arts\u003c/a> in Richmond and classes are open. Bonus: Nearby the EBCPA is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.therac.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond Art Center\u003c/a> where you can check out gallery shows and take art classes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10136238/5-ways-to-get-creative-this-summer","authors":["16"],"programs":["arts_139"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_70"],"featImg":"arts_10136842","label":"arts_139"},"arts_10136469":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10136469","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10136469","score":null,"sort":[1400763614000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-have-an-artfull-bay-bound-summer","title":"Sights of Summer: The Season’s Don’t-Miss Visual-Art Shows","publishDate":1400763614,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Sights of Summer: The Season’s Don’t-Miss Visual-Art Shows | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":517,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>For some of us, summer isn’t what it used to be. There’s no vacation, no fireflies, no rope swings, no lazy days by the lake/pool/beach. It’s more of the same nine to five with less sweaters. But just because summer break is a thing of the past doesn’t mean we have to abandon the idea of expanding our horizons with new visual experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With plenty of experimental formats, long-awaited shows, artist-led adventures, and some plain old off-the-wall wacky projects coming up in the summer months, this June, July, and August will make you glad you’re not off on some glamorous vacation. Forget the Grand Canyon: here’s eight art-filled reasons not to the leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpg\" alt=\"Antarctica Patch, contributed by Micaela Neus; Courtesy of A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Off Shore\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>May 28 – July 3\u003cbr>\nSouthern Exposure (3030 20th Street, San Francisco and various off-site locations)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://soex.org/index.html\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This ambitious large-scale project features new installations, events, lectures, walks, and a celebration of all things maritime. Artists being exhibited include Paul Cesewaski, Constance Hockaday, Marie Lorenz, Chris Sollars and A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting. Even if I didn’t work at SoEx, I’d line up to explore the forgotten, largely ignored, watery edges of San Francisco with this talented group of artists. As cities grows ever more crowded, the water becomes another frontier, a shelter, and an encroaching threat.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal.jpg\" alt=\"Cybele Lyle, <i>Boxed Out</i>, 2014; Courtesy of the artist\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Cybele Lyle\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>May 30 – July 4\u003cbr>\nEt al. Gallery (620 Kearny Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://etaletc.com/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Fresh from two simultaneous public installations in extremely tricky locations (one in the SFAC’s window gallery, the other in YBCA’s front door gallery), Lyle’s first solo show at Et al. promises to continue her compelling investigation into landscape and space. Melding video, photography, and collage, Lyle’s recent works are multi-dimensional and exquisitely suited to their environments. I can’t wait to see what she does in the strange underground lair beneath Kearny Street’s Union Cleaners.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Huggins, <i>View of the bridge from Baker Beach</i>, 1937</i>; Courtesy of the California Historical Society\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>San Francisco Time Travel Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 3 – November 4\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Historical Society (678 Mission Street)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-time-travel-project-presale-season-passes-tickets-11253721183\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Once a month from June to November, Odd Salon (a series of curated cocktail-hour lectures) presents a talk at the California Historical Society illustrated by objects and ephemera from the CHS archives. Covering different eras of San Francisco history and focusing on the “weird and wonderful,” the series touches on shipwrecks, skyscrapers, speakeasies, and every tantalizing bit of local past in between. Grab a season pass for all six events and get a rare peek at CHS holdings in this intimate and intriguing gathering.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits.jpg\" alt=\"David Bayus, 2014; Courtesy of the artist\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Sights and Sounds of Stage and Screen: David Bayus & Ben Bigelow\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 6 – July 5\u003cbr>\nCity Limits Gallery (300 Jefferson St, Oakland)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://citylimitsgallery.com/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If the alliterative title isn’t enough, this pairing of two artists treading that oh-so-current line between art and technology proves those two words can actually get along. And that the intersection between them can lead to truly worthwhile art viewing. If you still haven’t been to City Limits, now’s the time.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2.jpg\" alt=\"Forrest Bess, <i>Untitled (The Spider)</i>, 1970; Courtesy of the artist, collection of Christian Zacharias.\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 11 – September 14\u003cbr>\nBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Bess, a self-described visionary painter, has enjoyed periodic moments of posthumous celebrity, most recently during the 2012 Whitney Biennial thanks to artist Robert Gober. Now, an exhibition curated by Clare Elliott of the Menil Collection finally makes its way to BAM, showcasing his remarkable paintings and the fickle favor of the art world.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD.jpg\" alt=\"Installation of <i>The Exquisite Garden Project</i>, 2012; Photo by Gary Conaughton\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Joe Brubaker And The Exquisite Gardeners: A Visible Transparency Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 28 – September 21\u003cbr>\nMuseum of Craft and Design (2569 Third Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmcd.org/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Longtime educator and artist Joe Brubaker brings “The Exquisite Gardeners” to MCAD, creating a collaborative installation of scrappy and reclaimed materials in the midst of his own sculptural retrospective. Visitors can stop by during the Gardeners’ week-long installation period, giving a glimpse into an improvised (and possibly inspirational) creative process.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2.jpg\" alt=\"Women playing mah jongg in the Catskills, 1960; Collection of Harvey Abrams\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136489\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Project Mah Jongg\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>July 13 – October 28\u003cbr>\nContemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Imported from China, the game of mah jongg entered American consciousness in the 1920s and became inextricably linked to Jewish ladies’ social gatherings. This traveling exhibit showcases mah jongg artifacts (scorecards, aprons, packages, and tiles) along with the results of the game’s popularity (snazzy mah jongg-inspired fashion), exploring deep connections between this communal game-playing in both Chinese and Jewish cultures. Beef up your skills, grab a National Mah Jongg League playing card, and while away the evening hours with some friends.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Now 7\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>July 18 – September 28\u003cbr>\nYerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ybca.org/ban7\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For their seventh triennial of Bay Area art, YBCA tries a new, decentralized approach to curating, inviting fifteen local visual arts organizations to stage their own projects within the museum’s space. Providing a concentrated platform for some lesser-seen Bay Area arts activity, YBCA shifts focus from a select few artists to a group of venues, projects, and arts initiatives. A full range of events, readings, and screenings provide even more opportunities to learn about everyone from [ 2nd floor projects ] to Important Projects to the San Quentin Prison Project and the artists they work diligently to promote.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With plenty of experimental formats, long-awaited shows, artist-led adventures, and some plain old off-the-wall wacky projects coming up in the summer months, this June, July, and August will make you glad you're not off on some glamorous vacation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048915,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":919},"headData":{"title":"Sights of Summer: The Season’s Don’t-Miss Visual-Art Shows | KQED","description":"With plenty of experimental formats, long-awaited shows, artist-led adventures, and some plain old off-the-wall wacky projects coming up in the summer months, this June, July, and August will make you glad you're not off on some glamorous vacation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Sights of Summer: The Season’s Don’t-Miss Visual-Art Shows","datePublished":"2014-05-22T13:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:41:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/10136469/how-to-have-an-artfull-bay-bound-summer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For some of us, summer isn’t what it used to be. There’s no vacation, no fireflies, no rope swings, no lazy days by the lake/pool/beach. It’s more of the same nine to five with less sweaters. But just because summer break is a thing of the past doesn’t mean we have to abandon the idea of expanding our horizons with new visual experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With plenty of experimental formats, long-awaited shows, artist-led adventures, and some plain old off-the-wall wacky projects coming up in the summer months, this June, July, and August will make you glad you’re not off on some glamorous vacation. Forget the Grand Canyon: here’s eight art-filled reasons not to the leave the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpg\" alt=\"Antarctica Patch, contributed by Micaela Neus; Courtesy of A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SoEx-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Off Shore\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>May 28 – July 3\u003cbr>\nSouthern Exposure (3030 20th Street, San Francisco and various off-site locations)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://soex.org/index.html\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This ambitious large-scale project features new installations, events, lectures, walks, and a celebration of all things maritime. Artists being exhibited include Paul Cesewaski, Constance Hockaday, Marie Lorenz, Chris Sollars and A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting. Even if I didn’t work at SoEx, I’d line up to explore the forgotten, largely ignored, watery edges of San Francisco with this talented group of artists. As cities grows ever more crowded, the water becomes another frontier, a shelter, and an encroaching threat.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal.jpg\" alt=\"Cybele Lyle, <i>Boxed Out</i>, 2014; Courtesy of the artist\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Etal-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Cybele Lyle\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>May 30 – July 4\u003cbr>\nEt al. Gallery (620 Kearny Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://etaletc.com/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Fresh from two simultaneous public installations in extremely tricky locations (one in the SFAC’s window gallery, the other in YBCA’s front door gallery), Lyle’s first solo show at Et al. promises to continue her compelling investigation into landscape and space. Melding video, photography, and collage, Lyle’s recent works are multi-dimensional and exquisitely suited to their environments. I can’t wait to see what she does in the strange underground lair beneath Kearny Street’s Union Cleaners.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Huggins, <i>View of the bridge from Baker Beach</i>, 1937</i>; Courtesy of the California Historical Society\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CHS-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>San Francisco Time Travel Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 3 – November 4\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Historical Society (678 Mission Street)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-time-travel-project-presale-season-passes-tickets-11253721183\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Once a month from June to November, Odd Salon (a series of curated cocktail-hour lectures) presents a talk at the California Historical Society illustrated by objects and ephemera from the CHS archives. Covering different eras of San Francisco history and focusing on the “weird and wonderful,” the series touches on shipwrecks, skyscrapers, speakeasies, and every tantalizing bit of local past in between. Grab a season pass for all six events and get a rare peek at CHS holdings in this intimate and intriguing gathering.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits.jpg\" alt=\"David Bayus, 2014; Courtesy of the artist\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CityLimits-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Sights and Sounds of Stage and Screen: David Bayus & Ben Bigelow\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 6 – July 5\u003cbr>\nCity Limits Gallery (300 Jefferson St, Oakland)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://citylimitsgallery.com/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If the alliterative title isn’t enough, this pairing of two artists treading that oh-so-current line between art and technology proves those two words can actually get along. And that the intersection between them can lead to truly worthwhile art viewing. If you still haven’t been to City Limits, now’s the time.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2.jpg\" alt=\"Forrest Bess, <i>Untitled (The Spider)</i>, 1970; Courtesy of the artist, collection of Christian Zacharias.\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/BAM2-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 11 – September 14\u003cbr>\nBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Bess, a self-described visionary painter, has enjoyed periodic moments of posthumous celebrity, most recently during the 2012 Whitney Biennial thanks to artist Robert Gober. Now, an exhibition curated by Clare Elliott of the Menil Collection finally makes its way to BAM, showcasing his remarkable paintings and the fickle favor of the art world.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD.jpg\" alt=\"Installation of <i>The Exquisite Garden Project</i>, 2012; Photo by Gary Conaughton\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/MCD-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Joe Brubaker And The Exquisite Gardeners: A Visible Transparency Project\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>June 28 – September 21\u003cbr>\nMuseum of Craft and Design (2569 Third Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmcd.org/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Longtime educator and artist Joe Brubaker brings “The Exquisite Gardeners” to MCAD, creating a collaborative installation of scrappy and reclaimed materials in the midst of his own sculptural retrospective. Visitors can stop by during the Gardeners’ week-long installation period, giving a glimpse into an improvised (and possibly inspirational) creative process.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2.jpg\" alt=\"Women playing mah jongg in the Catskills, 1960; Collection of Harvey Abrams\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136489\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/CJM2-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\n\u003ch3>Project Mah Jongg\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>July 13 – October 28\u003cbr>\nContemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.thecjm.org/\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Imported from China, the game of mah jongg entered American consciousness in the 1920s and became inextricably linked to Jewish ladies’ social gatherings. This traveling exhibit showcases mah jongg artifacts (scorecards, aprons, packages, and tiles) along with the results of the game’s popularity (snazzy mah jongg-inspired fashion), exploring deep connections between this communal game-playing in both Chinese and Jewish cultures. Beef up your skills, grab a National Mah Jongg League playing card, and while away the evening hours with some friends.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10136490\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/YBCA2-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Now 7\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>July 18 – September 28\u003cbr>\nYerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street, San Francisco)\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.ybca.org/ban7\">Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For their seventh triennial of Bay Area art, YBCA tries a new, decentralized approach to curating, inviting fifteen local visual arts organizations to stage their own projects within the museum’s space. Providing a concentrated platform for some lesser-seen Bay Area arts activity, YBCA shifts focus from a select few artists to a group of venues, projects, and arts initiatives. A full range of events, readings, and screenings provide even more opportunities to learn about everyone from [ 2nd floor projects ] to Important Projects to the San Quentin Prison Project and the artists they work diligently to promote.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10136469/how-to-have-an-artfull-bay-bound-summer","authors":["61"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_70"],"featImg":"arts_10136492","label":"arts_517"},"arts_10136220":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10136220","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10136220","score":null,"sort":[1400629279000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"hot-days-mean-hot-plays-as-theatre-comes-to-the-great-outdoors","title":"Hot Days Mean Hot Plays as Theatre Goes Outside","publishDate":1400629279,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Hot Days Mean Hot Plays as Theatre Goes Outside | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":517,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Summer in the Bay Area can mean any number of things, from the recent heat wave to the downright chilly weather that prompted the popular phrase erroneously attributed to Mark Twain: “The \u003cem>coldest winter\u003c/em> I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” One thing it always means, however, is a whole lot of outdoor theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming majority of theater in the great outdoors are the works of William Shakespeare and other offerings from the various Shakespeare festivals that do their shows in the summer. This year is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so you’d think there might be more of his work going on than usual, but in fact it’s pretty much the standard selection of fare. A handful of The Bard’s comedies always get the most play, and that’s true this year as well, with four productions apiece of \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> and \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> (some of them indoors), three of \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em>, and two of \u003cem>The Taming of the Shrew.\u003c/em> The ever-popular \u003cem>Twelfth Night\u003c/em> is having a slow summer, meanwhile, with just an indoor production at \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/online/twelfthnight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the scenic hills of Orinda, \u003ca href=\"http://www.calshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Shakespeare Theater\u003c/a> kicks off its season with Lorraine Hansberry’s classic \u003cem>A Raisin in the Sun\u003c/em> (5/21-6/15) before getting to the Shakespeare with \u003cem>The Comedy of Errors\u003c/em> (6/25-7/20) and \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> (9/3-28). In between the doses of Shakespeare is a refreshing dose of George Bernard Shaw in the form of \u003cem>Pygmalion \u003c/em>(7/30-8/24), best known to some as the basis of the musical \u003cem>My Fair Lady\u003c/em>. In the farther East Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://livermoreshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Livermore Shakespeare Festival\u003c/a> presents a “festival of feisty lovers” with \u003cem>Much Ado\u003c/em> (6/19-7/6) and Jane Austen’s \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice \u003c/em>(7/10-7/20).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136221\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136221\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Kniffin as Petruchio and Carla Pantoja as Katerina in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew; photo: John Western.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Kniffin as Petruchio and Carla Pantoja as Katerina in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of \u003ci>The Taming of the Shrew\u003c/i>; photo: John Western.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfshakes.org/park/index.html\">San Francisco Shakespeare Festival\u003c/a> continues its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park tradition with \u003cem>The Taming of the Shrew\u003c/em>, which it will take to parks in Pleasanton (6/28-7/13), Cupertino (7/19-8/3), Redwood City (8/9-24) and San Francisco (8/30-9/21). Interestingly enough, the 5-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Vallejoshakespeareinthepark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park\u003c/a> is also taking its free show on the road this year, whisking its \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> through parks in Vallejo (July 26-27), Martinez (8/2-3) and Fruitvale (8/9-10).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.shadyshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company\u003c/a> is also in the \u003cem>Taming\u003c/em> business, doing a surfing-themed version at San Jose’s Willow Street Frank Bramhall Park (6/13-6/29). Shady Shakes finishes up its season in Saratoga’s Sanborn-Skyline County Park with its first production of Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Othello\u003c/em> (7/25-8/29) in repertory with Austen’s \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> (8/1-31). And there’s plenty more Shakespeare going on down south. \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbshakespeare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Moon Bay Shakespeare\u003c/a>’s \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> doesn’t open until September, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.fteshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festival Theatre Ensemble\u003c/a>’s summer season is in full swing with three plays in repertory in Sunnyvale (5/31-6/28) and Los Gatos (7/18-8/9): Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Julius Caesar\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing,\u003c/em> as well as founding-artistic director Bruce W. De Les Dernier’s own adaptation of George Farquhar’s 1707 comedy \u003cem>The Beaux’ Stratagem, \u003c/em>called \u003cem>The Pirates of Port Royal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really exciting news comes from even further south, where UC Santa Cruz abruptly pulled the plug on the venerable Shakespeare Santa Cruz, its 32-year-old professional theater company in residence, last summer. After a successful fundraising campaign, the company was reborn this year as an independent entity called, with only a slight modification to its name, \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Cruz Shakespeare\u003c/a>. Back in its predecessor’s longtime home in the woodsy Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen on the UCSC campus, the new SSC doubles down on Shakespearean comedy with \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Merry Wives of Windsor \u003c/em>(7/1-8/10). A Shakespearean-themed Fringe Show, Amy Freed’s madcap comedy \u003cem>The Beard of Avon\u003c/em>, has only two performances — July 29 and August 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136223\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Sholley, Marcia Pizzo, Darren Bridgett and Cat Thompson in An Ideal Husband at Marin Shakespeare Company; photo: Steven Underwood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Sholley, Marcia Pizzo, Darren Bridgett and Cat Thompson in \u003ci>An Ideal Husband\u003c/i> at Marin Shakespeare Company; photo: Steven Underwood.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Marin Shakespeare Company\u003c/a> will be celebrating its 25th anniversary and Shakespeare’s 450th with a revival of the very first play it staged, \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> (7/12-8/10), with all performances “pay as you like it” thanks to a gift from a generous donor. Then Marin Shakes gets tragic with \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> (7/26-9/28) and comedic again with Oscar Wilde’s \u003cem>An Ideal Husband \u003c/em>(8/23-9/27), all in its amphitheater at Dominican University in San Rafael, surrounded by trees and tennis courts. Farther north, \u003ca href=\"http://shakespearenapavalley.org/\">Shakespeare Napa Valley\u003c/a> is \u003cem>also\u003c/em> doing \u003cem>As You Like It \u003c/em>(9/5-21), although curiously enough they’re opting to stage the sylvan comedy indoors. SNV’s open-air offering will be \u003cem>How Shakespeare Won the West\u003c/em>, Richard Nelson’s vaudevillian comedy about a Gold Rush-era theatrical troupe, at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Napa (8/14-17). A new company called Bacchus Theatre is reportedly staging \u003cem>Midsummer\u003c/em> at the Oakmont Golf Club in Santa Rosa (7/18-27), but it’s too new to have a website yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like I said, that’s a lot of Shakespeare, and those are just the festivals. In San Francisco, site-specific theater specialists \u003ca href=\"http://www.weplayers.org/\">We Players\u003c/a> revive their production of \u003cem>Macbeth at Fort Point \u003c/em>(6/5-29), which was interrupted last year by the government shutdown and closure of the national parks. Marching the audience all around a Civil War-era fort directly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, this show is technically indoors in that it’s surrounded by walls, but it’s still open to the air above, and it gets chilly out there on the warmest of nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the above are evening shows, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.curtaintheatre.org/\">Curtain Theatre\u003c/a> performs its shows for free in the early afternoon at Mill Valley’s Old Mill Park. This year Curtain takes on \u003cem>The Tempest \u003c/em>(8/23-9/14), which is interesting primarily because the musical the company performed last year, \u003cem>Return to the Forbidden Planet\u003c/em>, was loosely based on that play and featured several of the same actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were to ask me what the second most performed writer would be in the parks this summer, I never would have guessed Jane Austen, but oddly enough, there are three productions of \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> on various outdoor stages this summer, all using completely different adaptations of Austen’s novel. Shady Shakes’ version is by Joseph Hanreddy, Livermore’s is by Christina Calvit, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.aeofberkeley.org/index.php\">Actors Ensemble of Berkeley\u003c/a> is performing one by Constance Cox at John Hinkel Park (7/5-20). The humble amphitheater at Hinkel in northernmost Berkeley has a venerable history as the longtime home of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, which became Cal Shakes upon its move to Orinda. Later Hinkel became the home of the now-defunct all-female Shakespeare company Woman’s Will and of Shotgun Players’ now-discontinued summer park shows. Berkeley’s community theater Actors Ensemble sets up shop there this summer with both Austen’s romantic comedy and Heinrich Von Kleist’s mythic drama \u003cem>Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons \u003c/em>(8/23-9/7), adapted by Giulio Perrone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadway musicals aren’t the most intuitive choice for outdoor theater, but don’t tell that to the \u003ca href=\"http://mountainplay.org/\">Mountain Play\u003c/a>, which has been staging shows high atop Mount Tamalpais for 101 years, with the last few decades being only musicals. The spacious stage has long allowed the company to add little surprises to its productions: tanks, cows, stagecoaches, vintage automobiles or low-flying planes. This year’s offering is \u003cem>South Pacific\u003c/em> (5/18-6/15), which the company last produced in 1997. \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodminster.com/index.html\">Woodminster Summer Musicals\u003c/a> is now in its 48th year of producing musicals in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park and is offering a diverse mix this year from \u003cem>Les Misérables\u003c/em> (7/11-7/20) to the new movie-based musical \u003cem>Catch Me If You Can\u003c/em> (8/8-17) to David Henry Hwang’s revamped version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s \u003cem>Flower Drum Song\u003c/em> (9/5-14).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136224\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136224\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Gene Sullivan, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia and Velina Brown in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Ripple Effect; photo: DavidAllenStudio.com\" width=\"800\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT-400x371.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Gene Sullivan, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia and Velina Brown in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s \u003ci>Ripple Effect\u003c/i>; photo: DavidAllenStudio.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s longest-running al fresco theatrical traditions is the 55-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmt.org/\">San Francisco Mime Troupe’s\u003c/a> free shows in the park, which are always sharp political satires and musical comedies. This year is no different with \u003cem>Ripple Effect,\u003c/em>(7/4-9/1) written by Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan and Tanya Shaffer, whicy takes on the class war in ever-gentrifying San Francisco. The piece opens, in Mime Troupe tradition, on the Fourth of July at Mission Dolores Park and before moving on to parks all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long local tradition of circus in the park as well, from the \u003ci>Pickle Family Circus\u003c/i> in the 1970s to \u003cem>Make*A*Circus\u003c/em> in the ’80s and ’90s, but that seems like a long time ago. Fortunately the small 6-year-old company \u003ca href=\"http://www.circusbella.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circus Bella\u003c/a> has stepped in to fill that gap, flying through parks in San Francisco, Oakland and San Rafael with the greatest of ease (6/26-7/27). Both Circus Bella and the Mime Troupe are part of a large variety of musical, dance and theatrical acts performing in the season-long \u003ca href=\"http://www.ybgfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco along with Red Panda Acrobats, Pi Clowns, Crosspulse, Caterpillar Puppets, the Unique Derique and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And new theatrical traditions are being born every day. Fresh out of \u003cem>the San Francisco Fringe Festival\u003c/em>, the traveling show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://obestbeloved.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Best Beloved\u003c/a>\u003c/em> hits the road this year (8/3-9/14) in its makeshift FluxWagon to perform its gleefully theatrical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s \u003cem>Just So Stories. \u003c/em>That’s not to mention the various Renaissance Faires and other immersive quasi-theatrical events that take place all over the region. One of the marvelous things about living in the Bay Area is that you never know where a theatrical experience might pop up. One might even say just walking down the street in San Francisco is an experience in live theater.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Outdoor theater is everywhere you look this summer, and every summer. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048928,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1839},"headData":{"title":"Hot Days Mean Hot Plays as Theatre Goes Outside | KQED","description":"Outdoor theater is everywhere you look this summer, and every summer. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Hot Days Mean Hot Plays as Theatre Goes Outside","datePublished":"2014-05-20T23:41:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T08:42:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/10136220/hot-days-mean-hot-plays-as-theatre-comes-to-the-great-outdoors","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Summer in the Bay Area can mean any number of things, from the recent heat wave to the downright chilly weather that prompted the popular phrase erroneously attributed to Mark Twain: “The \u003cem>coldest winter\u003c/em> I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” One thing it always means, however, is a whole lot of outdoor theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming majority of theater in the great outdoors are the works of William Shakespeare and other offerings from the various Shakespeare festivals that do their shows in the summer. This year is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so you’d think there might be more of his work going on than usual, but in fact it’s pretty much the standard selection of fare. A handful of The Bard’s comedies always get the most play, and that’s true this year as well, with four productions apiece of \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> and \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> (some of them indoors), three of \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing\u003c/em>, and two of \u003cem>The Taming of the Shrew.\u003c/em> The ever-popular \u003cem>Twelfth Night\u003c/em> is having a slow summer, meanwhile, with just an indoor production at \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/online/twelfthnight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the scenic hills of Orinda, \u003ca href=\"http://www.calshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Shakespeare Theater\u003c/a> kicks off its season with Lorraine Hansberry’s classic \u003cem>A Raisin in the Sun\u003c/em> (5/21-6/15) before getting to the Shakespeare with \u003cem>The Comedy of Errors\u003c/em> (6/25-7/20) and \u003cem>A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> (9/3-28). In between the doses of Shakespeare is a refreshing dose of George Bernard Shaw in the form of \u003cem>Pygmalion \u003c/em>(7/30-8/24), best known to some as the basis of the musical \u003cem>My Fair Lady\u003c/em>. In the farther East Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://livermoreshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Livermore Shakespeare Festival\u003c/a> presents a “festival of feisty lovers” with \u003cem>Much Ado\u003c/em> (6/19-7/6) and Jane Austen’s \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice \u003c/em>(7/10-7/20).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136221\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136221\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Kniffin as Petruchio and Carla Pantoja as Katerina in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew; photo: John Western.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFShakes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Kniffin as Petruchio and Carla Pantoja as Katerina in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of \u003ci>The Taming of the Shrew\u003c/i>; photo: John Western.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfshakes.org/park/index.html\">San Francisco Shakespeare Festival\u003c/a> continues its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park tradition with \u003cem>The Taming of the Shrew\u003c/em>, which it will take to parks in Pleasanton (6/28-7/13), Cupertino (7/19-8/3), Redwood City (8/9-24) and San Francisco (8/30-9/21). Interestingly enough, the 5-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Vallejoshakespeareinthepark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Shakespeare in the Park\u003c/a> is also taking its free show on the road this year, whisking its \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> through parks in Vallejo (July 26-27), Martinez (8/2-3) and Fruitvale (8/9-10).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The South Bay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.shadyshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company\u003c/a> is also in the \u003cem>Taming\u003c/em> business, doing a surfing-themed version at San Jose’s Willow Street Frank Bramhall Park (6/13-6/29). Shady Shakes finishes up its season in Saratoga’s Sanborn-Skyline County Park with its first production of Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Othello\u003c/em> (7/25-8/29) in repertory with Austen’s \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> (8/1-31). And there’s plenty more Shakespeare going on down south. \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbshakespeare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Moon Bay Shakespeare\u003c/a>’s \u003cem>Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c/em> doesn’t open until September, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.fteshakes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Festival Theatre Ensemble\u003c/a>’s summer season is in full swing with three plays in repertory in Sunnyvale (5/31-6/28) and Los Gatos (7/18-8/9): Shakespeare’s \u003cem>Julius Caesar\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Much Ado About Nothing,\u003c/em> as well as founding-artistic director Bruce W. De Les Dernier’s own adaptation of George Farquhar’s 1707 comedy \u003cem>The Beaux’ Stratagem, \u003c/em>called \u003cem>The Pirates of Port Royal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really exciting news comes from even further south, where UC Santa Cruz abruptly pulled the plug on the venerable Shakespeare Santa Cruz, its 32-year-old professional theater company in residence, last summer. After a successful fundraising campaign, the company was reborn this year as an independent entity called, with only a slight modification to its name, \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzshakespeare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Cruz Shakespeare\u003c/a>. Back in its predecessor’s longtime home in the woodsy Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen on the UCSC campus, the new SSC doubles down on Shakespearean comedy with \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Merry Wives of Windsor \u003c/em>(7/1-8/10). A Shakespearean-themed Fringe Show, Amy Freed’s madcap comedy \u003cem>The Beard of Avon\u003c/em>, has only two performances — July 29 and August 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136223\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Sholley, Marcia Pizzo, Darren Bridgett and Cat Thompson in An Ideal Husband at Marin Shakespeare Company; photo: Steven Underwood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorMarin-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Sholley, Marcia Pizzo, Darren Bridgett and Cat Thompson in \u003ci>An Ideal Husband\u003c/i> at Marin Shakespeare Company; photo: Steven Underwood.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Marin Shakespeare Company\u003c/a> will be celebrating its 25th anniversary and Shakespeare’s 450th with a revival of the very first play it staged, \u003cem>As You Like It\u003c/em> (7/12-8/10), with all performances “pay as you like it” thanks to a gift from a generous donor. Then Marin Shakes gets tragic with \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> (7/26-9/28) and comedic again with Oscar Wilde’s \u003cem>An Ideal Husband \u003c/em>(8/23-9/27), all in its amphitheater at Dominican University in San Rafael, surrounded by trees and tennis courts. Farther north, \u003ca href=\"http://shakespearenapavalley.org/\">Shakespeare Napa Valley\u003c/a> is \u003cem>also\u003c/em> doing \u003cem>As You Like It \u003c/em>(9/5-21), although curiously enough they’re opting to stage the sylvan comedy indoors. SNV’s open-air offering will be \u003cem>How Shakespeare Won the West\u003c/em>, Richard Nelson’s vaudevillian comedy about a Gold Rush-era theatrical troupe, at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Napa (8/14-17). A new company called Bacchus Theatre is reportedly staging \u003cem>Midsummer\u003c/em> at the Oakmont Golf Club in Santa Rosa (7/18-27), but it’s too new to have a website yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like I said, that’s a lot of Shakespeare, and those are just the festivals. In San Francisco, site-specific theater specialists \u003ca href=\"http://www.weplayers.org/\">We Players\u003c/a> revive their production of \u003cem>Macbeth at Fort Point \u003c/em>(6/5-29), which was interrupted last year by the government shutdown and closure of the national parks. Marching the audience all around a Civil War-era fort directly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, this show is technically indoors in that it’s surrounded by walls, but it’s still open to the air above, and it gets chilly out there on the warmest of nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the above are evening shows, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.curtaintheatre.org/\">Curtain Theatre\u003c/a> performs its shows for free in the early afternoon at Mill Valley’s Old Mill Park. This year Curtain takes on \u003cem>The Tempest \u003c/em>(8/23-9/14), which is interesting primarily because the musical the company performed last year, \u003cem>Return to the Forbidden Planet\u003c/em>, was loosely based on that play and featured several of the same actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were to ask me what the second most performed writer would be in the parks this summer, I never would have guessed Jane Austen, but oddly enough, there are three productions of \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> on various outdoor stages this summer, all using completely different adaptations of Austen’s novel. Shady Shakes’ version is by Joseph Hanreddy, Livermore’s is by Christina Calvit, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.aeofberkeley.org/index.php\">Actors Ensemble of Berkeley\u003c/a> is performing one by Constance Cox at John Hinkel Park (7/5-20). The humble amphitheater at Hinkel in northernmost Berkeley has a venerable history as the longtime home of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, which became Cal Shakes upon its move to Orinda. Later Hinkel became the home of the now-defunct all-female Shakespeare company Woman’s Will and of Shotgun Players’ now-discontinued summer park shows. Berkeley’s community theater Actors Ensemble sets up shop there this summer with both Austen’s romantic comedy and Heinrich Von Kleist’s mythic drama \u003cem>Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons \u003c/em>(8/23-9/7), adapted by Giulio Perrone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadway musicals aren’t the most intuitive choice for outdoor theater, but don’t tell that to the \u003ca href=\"http://mountainplay.org/\">Mountain Play\u003c/a>, which has been staging shows high atop Mount Tamalpais for 101 years, with the last few decades being only musicals. The spacious stage has long allowed the company to add little surprises to its productions: tanks, cows, stagecoaches, vintage automobiles or low-flying planes. This year’s offering is \u003cem>South Pacific\u003c/em> (5/18-6/15), which the company last produced in 1997. \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodminster.com/index.html\">Woodminster Summer Musicals\u003c/a> is now in its 48th year of producing musicals in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park and is offering a diverse mix this year from \u003cem>Les Misérables\u003c/em> (7/11-7/20) to the new movie-based musical \u003cem>Catch Me If You Can\u003c/em> (8/8-17) to David Henry Hwang’s revamped version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s \u003cem>Flower Drum Song\u003c/em> (9/5-14).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136224\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136224\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Gene Sullivan, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia and Velina Brown in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Ripple Effect; photo: DavidAllenStudio.com\" width=\"800\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT-400x371.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/outdoorSFMT-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Gene Sullivan, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Lisa Hori-Garcia and Velina Brown in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s \u003ci>Ripple Effect\u003c/i>; photo: DavidAllenStudio.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s longest-running al fresco theatrical traditions is the 55-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmt.org/\">San Francisco Mime Troupe’s\u003c/a> free shows in the park, which are always sharp political satires and musical comedies. This year is no different with \u003cem>Ripple Effect,\u003c/em>(7/4-9/1) written by Michael Gene Sullivan, Eugenie Chan and Tanya Shaffer, whicy takes on the class war in ever-gentrifying San Francisco. The piece opens, in Mime Troupe tradition, on the Fourth of July at Mission Dolores Park and before moving on to parks all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a long local tradition of circus in the park as well, from the \u003ci>Pickle Family Circus\u003c/i> in the 1970s to \u003cem>Make*A*Circus\u003c/em> in the ’80s and ’90s, but that seems like a long time ago. Fortunately the small 6-year-old company \u003ca href=\"http://www.circusbella.com/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circus Bella\u003c/a> has stepped in to fill that gap, flying through parks in San Francisco, Oakland and San Rafael with the greatest of ease (6/26-7/27). Both Circus Bella and the Mime Troupe are part of a large variety of musical, dance and theatrical acts performing in the season-long \u003ca href=\"http://www.ybgfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\u003c/a> in downtown San Francisco along with Red Panda Acrobats, Pi Clowns, Crosspulse, Caterpillar Puppets, the Unique Derique and many more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And new theatrical traditions are being born every day. Fresh out of \u003cem>the San Francisco Fringe Festival\u003c/em>, the traveling show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://obestbeloved.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Best Beloved\u003c/a>\u003c/em> hits the road this year (8/3-9/14) in its makeshift FluxWagon to perform its gleefully theatrical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s \u003cem>Just So Stories. \u003c/em>That’s not to mention the various Renaissance Faires and other immersive quasi-theatrical events that take place all over the region. One of the marvelous things about living in the Bay Area is that you never know where a theatrical experience might pop up. One might even say just walking down the street in San Francisco is an experience in live theater.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/10136220/hot-days-mean-hot-plays-as-theatre-comes-to-the-great-outdoors","authors":["76"],"series":["arts_517"],"categories":["arts_1003"],"featImg":"arts_10136222","label":"arts_517"},"arts_10135727":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_10135727","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"10135727","score":null,"sort":[1400245226000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"godzilla-and-other-hollywood-monsters","title":"Godzilla and Other Hollywood Monsters Coming this Summer","publishDate":1400245226,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Godzilla and Other Hollywood Monsters Coming this Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":517,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Summer movies, by tradition and definition, are mindless guilty pleasures. We can always count on Hollywood for mindlessness, all right, but pleasure is often harder to come by. Superheroes, supervillains, sequels—blockbusters can be awfully exhausting. But there’s nothing else to do, frankly, but grab a bucket of popcorn, adjust your expectations and wade into the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> (May 16) The original Japanese monster movie, back in the ‘50s, was born of nuclear radiation and Cold War paranoia. What fears stalk our dreams today, and rise with the beast from the depths of the ocean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Silent Film Festival (May 29-June 1) A pair of Soviet gems stand out among the many and varied vintage films on display: The sci-fi adventure trip \u003cem>Cosmic Voyage\u003c/em> (1936) imagines socialist space travel (talk about flights of fancy), while \u003cem>The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks\u003c/em> (1924) is an utterly delightful satire of, well, the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136250\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg\" alt=\"Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane in <i>A Milion Ways to Die in the West</i>\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane in \u003ci>A Milion Ways to Die in the West\u003c/i> \u003ccite>(Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Million Ways to Die in the West\u003c/em> (May 30) Seth MacFarlane chews the scenery and the sagebrush in a comedy that aims squarely for the broad side of a barn. A manically anachronistic Western crammed with expletives and sex jokes, it aspires to make Mel Brooks’ \u003cem>Blazing Saddles\u003c/em> look like Budd Boetticher’s \u003cem>Ride Lonesome\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fault In Our Stars\u003c/em> (June 6) The inevitable screen adaptation of John Green’s widely praised teen romance stars the luminous Shailene Woodley and the gorgeous Ansel Elgort, supported by national treasures Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. Kleenex sales will be HUGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How to Train Your Dragon 2\u003c/em> (June 13) Hollywood history is filled with sequels, none of which had the tagline, “Expect the unexpected.” “More of the same” is more like it, but this children’s crowd-pleaser will likely provide enough wit and freshness to carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Frameline\u003c/i> (June 19-29) The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival presents, among its many, many offerings, a pair of long-awaited documentaries by local filmmakers. Nancy Kates’ \u003cem>Regarding Susan Sontag\u003c/em> is a probing study in scarlet (and other shades) of the New York Jewish lesbian intellectual, while Jennifer Kroot’s \u003cem>To Be Takei\u003c/em> is an affectionate portrait of \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> actor and activist George Takei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jersey Boys\u003c/em> (June 20) The high-energy doo-wop of the Four Seasons, led by Frankie Valli, leapt out of car radios in the ‘60s. Four decades later, baby boomers embraced the high-octane stage musical, which married the group’s songs to a riveting behind-the-scenes saga. The same demographic is already queuing up for Clint Eastwood’s glossy, gorgeous take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Transformers: Age of Extinction\u003c/em> (June 27) Our bet for the loudest movie of the summer. What, you want more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIwuCs1Yovw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They Came Together\u003c/em> (June 27) David Wain and Michael Showalter (\u003cem>Wet Hot American Summer\u003c/em>) send up the winsome charm and pervasive inanity of the romantic comedy in a witty spoof that could be a word-of-mouth hit among urban twenty-somethings. Immerse yourself in the collected works of Meg Ryan ahead of time to get the full effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deliver Us From Evil\u003c/em> (July 2) A cop and a priest team up to solve a harrowing series of crimes that are freaking out seen-it-all New Yorkers (aka godless heathens). Repent before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Life Itself\u003c/em> (July 11) Documentary maker Steve James deftly and poignantly transposes the late, great film critic Roger Ebert’s memoir to the screen. Not exactly summer escapism, perhaps, but there are many ways to be reminded of the special joy of movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Venus In Fur\u003c/em> (July 11) Roman Polanski’s late-career penchant for intimate dramas originally written for the stage continues with this black comedy starring his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, as an actress and the estimable Mathieu Amalric as a director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jupiter Ascending\u003c/em> (July 18) The Wachowski siblings offer another delirious and probably deranged slab of chromosome-determined destiny, starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum. It takes place in a near future where computer-generated effects still have the power to make people mutter, “Cool,” but you knew that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Boyhood.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Boyhood.jpg\" alt=\"<i>Boyhood</i>\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136252\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Boyhood.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Boyhood-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Boyhood-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ci>Boyhood\u003c/i> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sundance Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Boyhood\u003c/em> (July 18) Richard Linklater’s unique and remarkable epic of adolescence was shot over a dozen years with the same actors. Arguably the film of the year, it’s a remarkable accomplishment with an exceptional emotional impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>San Francisco Jewish Film Festival\u003c/i> (July 24-Aug. 10) The SFJFF’s eclectic potpourri of (primarily) European, Israeli and American cinema encompasses nostalgia (20th Century culture), controversy (current perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian morass), adult comedy (the province, typically, of the U.S. and French narratives) and personal histories (from fading echoes of the Holocaust to contemporary searches for identity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Magic in the Moonlight\u003c/em> (July 25) Woody Allen’s latest piffle trafficking in the mores and machinations of another era is set on the Cote d’Azur in the 1920s. A talented cast, including Colin Firth and Jacki Weaver, partakes of Jazz Age clothes, libations and flings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hercules\u003c/em> (July 25) Brett Ratner directs Dwayne Johnson in a movingly profound and poetic character study of a barbaric mercenary who redeems himself by joining a just cause. Much blood is shed along the way, because you can’t get to Redemption City without going through the Valley of Death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lucy\u003c/em> (August 8) Scarlett Johansson plays an over-the-top action heroine in Luc Besson’s latest exercise in genre worship and stylized mayhem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>November Man\u003c/em> (August 27) No summer is complete without a nail-biting tale of double-crossing spooks trying to avert geopolitical catastrophe. Pierce Brosnan furrows his brow while director Roger Donaldson choreographs the fusillades and French kisses.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s the season of the witch, and the dragon, and the Transformer, and the Greek demigod, and Scarlett Johansson. Buckle up.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705048954,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":998},"headData":{"title":"Godzilla and Other Hollywood Monsters Coming this Summer | KQED","description":"It’s the season of the witch, and the dragon, and the Transformer, and the Greek demigod, and Scarlett Johansson. 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But there’s nothing else to do, frankly, but grab a bucket of popcorn, adjust your expectations and wade into the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/summer-arts-guide-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5.png\" alt=\"SummerArtsGuide-300x250-5\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Godzilla\u003c/em> (May 16) The original Japanese monster movie, back in the ‘50s, was born of nuclear radiation and Cold War paranoia. What fears stalk our dreams today, and rise with the beast from the depths of the ocean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Silent Film Festival (May 29-June 1) A pair of Soviet gems stand out among the many and varied vintage films on display: The sci-fi adventure trip \u003cem>Cosmic Voyage\u003c/em> (1936) imagines socialist space travel (talk about flights of fancy), while \u003cem>The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks\u003c/em> (1924) is an utterly delightful satire of, well, the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10136250\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg\" alt=\"Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane in <i>A Milion Ways to Die in the West</i>\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10136250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/05/Million-ways-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlize Theron and Seth MacFarlane in \u003ci>A Milion Ways to Die in the West\u003c/i> \u003ccite>(Universal Pictures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Million Ways to Die in the West\u003c/em> (May 30) Seth MacFarlane chews the scenery and the sagebrush in a comedy that aims squarely for the broad side of a barn. A manically anachronistic Western crammed with expletives and sex jokes, it aspires to make Mel Brooks’ \u003cem>Blazing Saddles\u003c/em> look like Budd Boetticher’s \u003cem>Ride Lonesome\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Fault In Our Stars\u003c/em> (June 6) The inevitable screen adaptation of John Green’s widely praised teen romance stars the luminous Shailene Woodley and the gorgeous Ansel Elgort, supported by national treasures Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe. Kleenex sales will be HUGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>How to Train Your Dragon 2\u003c/em> (June 13) Hollywood history is filled with sequels, none of which had the tagline, “Expect the unexpected.” “More of the same” is more like it, but this children’s crowd-pleaser will likely provide enough wit and freshness to carry the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Frameline\u003c/i> (June 19-29) The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival presents, among its many, many offerings, a pair of long-awaited documentaries by local filmmakers. Nancy Kates’ \u003cem>Regarding Susan Sontag\u003c/em> is a probing study in scarlet (and other shades) of the New York Jewish lesbian intellectual, while Jennifer Kroot’s \u003cem>To Be Takei\u003c/em> is an affectionate portrait of \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em> actor and activist George Takei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jersey Boys\u003c/em> (June 20) The high-energy doo-wop of the Four Seasons, led by Frankie Valli, leapt out of car radios in the ‘60s. Four decades later, baby boomers embraced the high-octane stage musical, which married the group’s songs to a riveting behind-the-scenes saga. The same demographic is already queuing up for Clint Eastwood’s glossy, gorgeous take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Transformers: Age of Extinction\u003c/em> (June 27) Our bet for the loudest movie of the summer. What, you want more?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/YIwuCs1Yovw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YIwuCs1Yovw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>They Came Together\u003c/em> (June 27) David Wain and Michael Showalter (\u003cem>Wet Hot American Summer\u003c/em>) send up the winsome charm and pervasive inanity of the romantic comedy in a witty spoof that could be a word-of-mouth hit among urban twenty-somethings. Immerse yourself in the collected works of Meg Ryan ahead of time to get the full effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deliver Us From Evil\u003c/em> (July 2) A cop and a priest team up to solve a harrowing series of crimes that are freaking out seen-it-all New Yorkers (aka godless heathens). Repent before it’s too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Life Itself\u003c/em> (July 11) Documentary maker Steve James deftly and poignantly transposes the late, great film critic Roger Ebert’s memoir to the screen. 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A talented cast, including Colin Firth and Jacki Weaver, partakes of Jazz Age clothes, libations and flings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hercules\u003c/em> (July 25) Brett Ratner directs Dwayne Johnson in a movingly profound and poetic character study of a barbaric mercenary who redeems himself by joining a just cause. Much blood is shed along the way, because you can’t get to Redemption City without going through the Valley of Death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lucy\u003c/em> (August 8) Scarlett Johansson plays an over-the-top action heroine in Luc Besson’s latest exercise in genre worship and stylized mayhem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>November Man\u003c/em> (August 27) No summer is complete without a nail-biting tale of double-crossing spooks trying to avert geopolitical catastrophe. 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