Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue Out Soon, By Pat Thomas

I’ll probably never get around to reading this novel, as I read almost nothing but non-fiction, but this novel about “Telegraph Avenue that bridges Berkeley and Oakland, that frisky, clamorous thoroughfare so identified, since the 1960s, with the counterculture and community life” sure sounds like it captures an area and an era that I’m intrinsically linked to…..

Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

Battling Progress and Other Demons, Review of Telegraph Avenue, by Michiko Kakutani