Rose Linke
I’m a professional bookworm: I read, write, edit, copyedit, and name things.
I believe the stories we tell have the ability to dismantle and rebuild the world as we know it.
We have a lot of work to do.
In the Works
Current interests include: the Ballona wetlands, hydraulic mining in the Sierra foothills, architecture of post-war Los Angeles, indexing as a utopian act, the mining of ochre, rock carvings in Bohuslän, and the tallest chestnut tree in North America.
Projects & Friends
- A Hundred Monkeys, director
- Museum of Capitalism, co-editor
- Center for Hydrosocial Studies, co-founder
- PLACE TALKS, speaker
- Living Room Light Exchange, writer & editor
- Art Practical, copyeditor
Memories
2023
- Ebbings, The New Farmer’s Almanac Vol. VI: Adjustments & Accommodations
- Afterword for Forgotten Flowers
- Dreamweavers: On spider-human relations and collaborations, Broccoli Magazine
2022
- Assorted Characters, a three-volume zine of found text, A Hundred Monkeys
2021
- Strange Vessel: Musings on chanterelles and rock carvings, Mushroom People
- Placeless, the sixth publication of the Living Room Light Exchange
- Go Name Yourself, a card deck for naming things, A Hundred Monkeys
2020
- Yerba Buena: Tracing the legacy of artist Win Ng, Broccoli Magazine
- Stardust Department: A profile of Rachel Carson, Broccoli Magazine
- L.A. Florilegium: A history of bougainvillea, Broccoli Magazine
- RARE EARTH, the fifth publication of the Living Room Light Exchange
2019
- No Manifestos reading at City Lights in San Francisco, CA
- Second edition of Museum of Capitalism launch, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY
- Strange Foundation Decelerator in West Shokan, NY
- Spellwork: Technologies and Conjurings, the fourth publication of the Living Room Light Exchange
- Hewnoaks Artist Colony in Lovell, ME
2018
- A Long Wait: Double Vision, published by Orbis Editions
- A View from the Edge of the Earth, an interview in The Chart
- After the Internet, the third publication of the Living Room Light Exchange
- Museum of Capitalism reading at the San Francisco Art Book Fair
- Center for Hydrosocial Studies in residence at IF/THEN in Berkeley, CA
2017
- Center for Hydrosocial Studies in residence at This Will Take Time in Point Arena, CA
- State Change, the second publication of the Living Room Light Exchange
- Museum of Capitalism book launch, in Oakland, CA
- Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Residency in Santa Fe, NM
- Uncovered in Time and History commissioned by the Theo Westernberger Estate
2016
- Launch of the first Living Room Light Exchange publication
- But you must act now! as part of the PLACE TALKS series hosted at the Prelinger Library
2015
- Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference in Ripton, VT
- Writ Large festival at the Great Wall in Oakland, CA
2014
- Instructions for “Mr. Natural” in issue 23 of THE THING Quarterly
- Quiet Lightning reading, cohosted by SOMArts and ArtSpan as part of Litquake