***CANCELED***We are sorry to announce that this event has been canceled. Unfortunately, due to the grounding of flights across Europe because of the volcano eruption in Iceland, Dr. Farmer will not be …
Read More >In honor of National Poetry Month, Richard O. Moore reads from his new book, Writing the Silences. Moore was part of the San Francisco Renaissance literary movement of the 1940s and 1950s. …
Read More >UC Press is proud to be a sponsor of National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Throughout the month of April, we’re joining the Academy of American Poets to …
Read More >“Mark Twain at Play” Exhibition at the Bancroft Library Mark Twain was a hardworking and prolific writer, but how did he spend his time when the “bread-and-butter element” was put aside and …
Read More >With the series premiere coming up on Sunday on Discovery, Life has gotten lots of attention this week. Today, Linda Holmes of NPR’s Monkey See blog called the series “stunning and beautiful” …
Read More >Tavis Smiley recently interviewed both Judith A. Carney, coauthor of In the Shadow of Slavery, and Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, on his Public Radio International show. Asked about the …
Read More >Planet Earth, the BBC/Discovery Channel series and companion book, traveled deep into caves and oceans, and high into the rainforest canopy and mountaintops, to reveal the majesty of our environment. On March …
Read More >If you missed the Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts this fall, you have another chance to see this evocative collection of Surrealist …
Read More >“In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind that I am speaking from the grave….I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue, for good reason: I can speak thence …
Read More >Richard O. Moore, author of Writing the Silences, read his work at UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems on December 3. Brenda Hillman, poet and co-editor of Writing the Silences, introduced the reading. After …
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