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Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"

Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.

Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"

It has been surprisingly easy for Victorian scholars to overlook Thomas Carlyle in recent years as an unfashionable “Victorian sage.”  But in his time, in George Eliot’s description, Carlyle was like an oak leaving fertile acorns of ideas that would grow and spread with good influence.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."

Somewhere between the virtuosic parodies of Frank Zappa and the screwball wit of Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre reinvented the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s. Jeremy Braddock explores their legacy.

We honor Hispanic Heritage Month through poems by South American poets from the upcoming THE SERPENT AND THE FIRE, the final poetry anthology from Jerome Rothenberg and co-edited with Javier Taboada.

Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press