Fanhackers – Your guide to research on fans.

Matt Hills is a fan studies and media scholar of really wide breadth, expertise, and versatility, author of the classic fan studies text Fan Cultures (2002) as well as a number of subsequent monographs: How To Do Things With Cultural Theory (2005),The Pleasures of Horror (2005), Triumph of a time lord (2010), Blade Runner (2011) Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event (2015)  – he’s also one of the editors of Transatlantic Television Drama (2019),  the Doctor Who reader Adventures Across Space and Time (2023), and Theatre Fandom (2025) as well as a prolific writer of essays and book chapters on a broad swath of fandoms, practices, and cult classics: Star Wars, Veronica Mars, Torchwood, Sherlock, Buffy, Lord of the Rings, and more.

The Town — Nomadic Press

Nomadic Press' last publication is a love letter to Oakland titled The Town. It is an anthology of 65 contributors who live (or have lived) in Oakland and was a collaborative editorial labor of love between J. K. Fowler and Ayodele Nzinga.

Revenge of the Dilettantes

Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement

Revenge of the Dilettantes

Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement

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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City [Hardcover] by Andrew Alden

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller! Beneath Oakland’s streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide Read the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present.

The Best Books of 2025

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

BookHive — Reading is better together

Track your books, connect with friends, and discover your next favourite read on an open, social platform.

BookHive — Reading is better together

Track your books, connect with friends, and discover your next favourite read on an open, social platform.

BookHive — Reading is better together

Track your books, connect with friends, and discover your next favourite read on an open, social platform.

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Current - A River of Reading

Current rethinks RSS for the modern reader. Your feeds flow like a river. No inbox anxiety, no unread counts.

Umberto Eco's Guide to Writing a Thesis

A funny and unpretentious guide by the illustrious novelist Umberto Eco, for his favorite audience: teachers and their students.