Poetry lovers, take note: Legendary Beat poet Michael McClure will be reading from his new collection of poems, Of Indigo and Saffron, at City Lights Books on Wednesday, January 26 at 7:00 …
Read More >You don’t have to live in Northern California to experience Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 on the big screen. The Radical Light Book, Film, …
Read More >With 2011 underway and the sun shining in the Bay Area (at least temporarily), UC Press has declared it safe to come out of winter hibernation. We know of at least three …
Read More >Robert Hirst, director of the Mark Twain Project, was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air on December 1. In the interview, Hirst shares some little-known pieces from the Autobiography, including a gem of …
Read More >Contributors, friends, and fans gathered to celebrate the release of Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas at the McCroskey Mattress Co. earlier this month. Not even a World Series game …
Read More >Mark Twain is on fire! His unexpurgated Autobiography debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list—”not bad for a book written 100 years ago and wrapped up …
Read More >Utne Reader has named Rebecca Solnit one of its 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World, praising Solnit for telling a different story than the one told by mainstream media in the …
Read More >Self-reinventor. Master of self-aggrandizement. The first blogger. An enigma shrouded in a white suit. These are just a few of the labels that have been applied to Mark Twain since UC Press …
Read More >On November 4, Litquake celebrates the release of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in style with the Mark Twain Ball. Co-presented with the Bancroft Library and the California Historical Society, the Ball …
Read More >To celebrate the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive present an evening of light shows, …
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