Michael Chabon’s collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs, is up for a non-fiction award from the Northern California Book Reviewers, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.
Chabon is one of a handful of Berkeley authors whose books have been singled out for praise.
Berkeley poet Kim Addonozio’s Lucifer at the Starlite is a nominee [...]
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Imperfect Endings: Can a daughter help her mother kill herself?
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter was living in Berkeley with her husband and two daughters when her mother began to call from Washington DC to talk about ending her life. Carter’s mother, Margaret, a vivacious, intelligent woman, was suffering from Parkinson’s and a host of other ailments and could no longer stand the pain. She wanted to [...]
Why is that parsley sprig on the Seder plate anyway?
When Ira Steingroot started working at Cody’s Books in 1976, he noticed that the store only had a small collection of Jewish books. Since Passover was approaching, Steingroot decided to stock some more haggadot, the book Jews follow during the Passover Seder.
That casual decision launched Steingroot on a 34-year quest to discover and understand haggadot [...]
Bancroft Library throws itself a 150th birthday party
Attention history lovers! The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is 150 years old and is throwing itself a party.
The party won’t be centered around cake and candles (although there will be a reception on Friday night). Instead, it will feature scholarship, which is only fitting for one of the world’s most distinguished libraries.
Historians from around [...]
Scott Rosenberg in conversation with Jon Carroll
Looking for a little stimulus of the mind this evening? Perhaps a laugh too. Jon Carroll, he of the daily, eminently readable, Chronicle column, will be “in conversation” with Scott Rosenberg at the Berkeley Rep tonight at 7pm.
Rosenberg (pictured left), author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What it’s Becoming and Why it Matters, is a [...]
Slow food, slow words: Dinner in a bookstore
Wine and words. They go well together. Especially when savored slowly.
University Press Books on Bancroft will host its second Slow Reading Dinner on Monday, Feb. 22 from 6 to 8 pm. Guests will gather around the store’s central table, nibble on food foraged from the Berkeley Hills (and elsewhere) prepared by Erick Balbuena, the chef at [...]
UC Press has new California initiative
Kim Robinson moved to Berkeley a year ago to take a job as regional publisher of UC Press. Her mandate: enhance the number and quality of books published on California and the West.
That might seem obvious for a university press based in Berkeley. But it wasn’t. While UC Press has always published books examining various [...]
New designs on Berkeley libraries
The Berkeley Public Library is redesigning three of its outposts — the South Branch library on Russell and MLK Way, the Claremont library on Benvenue at Ashby and the North Branch on The Alameda (above) — and is holding meetings where the public can see the designs the assigned architectural teams have come up with.
On Wednesday February [...]
Berkeley Library Foundation honors local authors
Hundreds of people crowded into a gorgeously decorated Berkeley Main Library on Saturday night to toast local authors.
The honorees included Michael Chabon, Michael Lewis, Geoffrey Nunberg, Michelle Richmond, Alison Gopnik, Alan Black, Minal Hajratwala, Daniel Mason, Molly Katzen, Katie Hafner, Tamin Ansary, Andrew Beahrs, Sylvia Brownrigg, Ernest Callenbach, Novella Carpenter, Charlie Haas, and many more. [...]
Author festival tackles the knotty questions
If you are a book lover, writer or member of a book club — and chances are if you live in Berkeley you’re one of the three — you might want to clear your calendar for tomorrow and check out the 16th annual Festival of Women Authors that is taking place at H’s Lordships on [...]
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