Blog Posts

The butterflies are stalking me

By Kate Blackwood / September 30, 2025

I couldn’t get away from butterflies this month. They were suddenly everywhere, so I started to pay attention.

Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’

By Kate Blackwood / August 13, 2025

Without breaking out of the character of 1896, Jesi Bender’s CHILD OF LIGHT gives an eerie premonition of electricity’s progress in the past 125 years.

‘So-called’: Media Objects podcast thinks critically about AI

By Kate Blackwood / August 3, 2025

Two episodes, broadcasting this week on KALW’s Bay Made show starting August 4, put AI into historical context and re-center human intelligence.

What to read on vacation

By Kate Blackwood / July 4, 2025

Never bring nonfiction about the arctic on vacation to Albania. Especially if it’s a library book.