Mark your calendars, because the annual UC Press Hurt Book Sale is approaching! We’ll be on the front steps of 2120 Berkeley Way all day on October 4 selling lightly dinged and …
Read More >The latest issue of our journal Boom: A Journal of California (visit Boom’s web site), published this week, features an exclusive interview with Oakland artist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Clowes launched …
Read More >Every day, innocent books, books that wanted nothing more than to spread knowledge, each like a little paper Prometheus, get hurt. And when that happens, often these books fall between the cracks …
Read More >Last week, UC Press author David Deamer spoke about his book First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began as part of Google’s forum for authors, Authors@Google. Deamer …
Read More >On Tuesday, June 14, the Center for the Art of Translation will host leading American poet Fanny Howe at 111 Minna St. Gallery at 12:30 pm for the final Two Voices event …
Read More >Establishing National Poetry Month in April, which T.S. Eliot famously deemed “the cruelest month,” might seem a little misguided. But on closer look, the Academy of American Poets may be on to …
Read More >One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before …
Read 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. …
Read More >UC Press author Peter Schrag was among the honorees at the Berkeley Public Library Foundation’s 9th Annual Authors Dinner. Also on the guest list were Burton Richter, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Eggers, …
Read More >Attention Southern California: Make sure you get to the Hammer Museum on Tuesday, February 8 at 7:00 p.m. for a one-of-a-kind celebration of the Autobiography of Mark Twain. Scholar and editor of …
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