Walking State Street, Before and After COVID-19
Only three weeks apart, two very different experiences.
David Starkey
Recent Stories
What to Read During National Poetry Month
Former Santa Barbara poet laureate and ‘Independent’ writer David Starkey reviews 30 books of poems.
Maria Gainza’s ‘Optic Nerve’
Argentinian art critic pens a hybrid work of memoir, fiction, and art criticism.
‘The Art of Symeon Shimin’
New book brings illustrator to life.
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Author shows us what it’s like to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
Psalms of Cinders and Silt Addresses Fire and Mudslide
Carpinteria-based poetry journal remembers the Montecito tragedy through poems.
Review | Peter Orner’s ‘Maggie Brown & Others’
The author offers up short and very short stories, each revolving around a theme or place.
Review | Chris Ware’s ‘Rusty Brown’
If I were recommending just one book published in 2019, it would be this big, audacious, unwieldy masterpiece.
Review | David Wallace-Wells’s ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’
Book on the calamities of climate change offers one body blow after another.
Review | Peter Schjeldahl’s ‘Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light’
Author feels like a best friend just happens to know almost everything there is to know about art.
