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At this year’s Litquake Festival, a series of literary events in the Bay Area through October 13 (most of them free), you won’t be able to throw a stone without hitting a UC Press author. Below is a full schedule of events featuring our authors (names in bold). You can find out more at the [more...]  This month, we’re publishing Hidden Alcatraz, a unique collection of images taken by thirty-four photographers who were granted unprecedented access to the island. Guided by rangers, they explored places off the normal day tour: the prison roof and lighthouse; the hospital; the tunnels; the morgue; the rumored “dungeon” beneath the cell blocks. At midnight, [more...] David Kipen served for seven years as book editor and book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle before relocating to L.A., where he started the used bookstore and lending library, Libros Schmibros. Kipen makes his triumphant return to San Francisco this Tuesday night, where he will read from UC Press’s new edition of San Francisco [more...] On KQED’s Forum this week, Fred Rosenbaum spoke to Michael Krasny about his book Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, in which he chronicles the diverse ways the Jewish community has shaped and enriched the region, from the first congregations during the Gold Rush to the [more...] |
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