Favorite Books
The White Album: Joan Didion, City of Quartz: Mike Davis, Can't Stop Won't Stop: Jeff Chang, Ghost World: Daniel Clowes, Love and Rockets: Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Meditations in an Emergency: Frank O'Hara, Nickel and Dimed: Barbara Ehrenreich, Chronicles: Bob Dylan, Mystery Train: Greil Marcus, Plainwater: Ann Carson, The Complete Works: William Shakespeare, Holy Sonnets: John Donne
Favorite Authors
Paul Celan, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Klein, Jeff Chang, Los Bros Hernandez, Daniel Clowes, Ann Carson, Brenda Hillman, Andrew Demcak, Douglas Wolk, John Donne, Shakespeare, John Ashbery, Greil Marcus... and so many more!
Influences
Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Thomas Merton, Jeff Chang, Greil Marcus, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bob Dylan, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Los Bros Hernandez, Dorothy Day, Ann Carson
About Kaya
Kaya Oakes’ memoir, Radical Reinvention, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in April of 2012. Her first nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt, and selected as a San Francisco Chronicle notable...
Causes Kaya Oakes Supports
The ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
Call to Action
Human Rights Campaign
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
Kaya’s Favorite Books
The White Album: Joan Didion, City of Quartz: Mike Davis, Can't Stop Won't Stop: Jeff Chang, Ghost World: Daniel Clowes, Love and Rockets: Gilbert and Jaime...