Big congratulations are in order for Peter Quartermain and James Maynard, the respective editors of Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays and Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose. The two books received the Poetry Foundation’s …
Read More >To conclude our celebration of National Poetry Month, we asked Andrew Joron, one of the co-editors of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, to reflect on Lamantia’s poetic development and the sources of …
Read More >In honor of National Poetry Month, please enjoy this archival footage of a young Michael McClure reading to lions at the San Francisco Zoo from his 1964 collection, Ghost Tantras. The clip …
Read More >Author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen died on Saturday at the age of 86 after a fight with leukemia. Matthiessen is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including Sal Si …
Read More >Which books would you turn to if you needed to rebuild civilization? Futurist Stewart Brand has compiled a list of “76 Books to Sustain and Rebuild Humanity” as part of the Long Now …
Read More >To commemorate the passing of the great Amiri Baraka, we bring you an insider’s perspective on what it was like to work with such a towering cultural and literary icon. From 2002-2011, Kalicia …
Read More >The Chinese literary epic, Three Kingdoms, which will be published in a fifteenth anniversary edition by UC Press this spring, has spurred a growing tourism industry in China, according to the New …
Read More >Thanks to everyone who came out to the night of Mark Twain trivia on Monday at the Make-Out Room, sponsored by Litquake and UC Press! We sipped Lemon Clemens and Drunkleberry Finns while …
Read More >Banned Books Week is the celebration of books challenged in libraries and classrooms across the nation. Books are banned for various reasons, but most are banned for content not deemed appropriate for …
Read More >Think you know Mark Twain? Think again. Enter the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 Goodreads galley giveaway between now and October 5th for your chance to win one of five limited …
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