Looking for a great book? Here’s what Berkeleyans are reading this summer
Gasp! Summer is almost gone. With Cal starting up in mid-August and BUSD starting Aug. 27, time is running out to get copious amounts of reading in.
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‘Birds of Berkeley’ is a playful, illustrated guide to our avian neighbors
The new Heyday book, by Berkeley native Oliver James, is part field guide, part coffee-table topper and part political call to action.
Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin
Listen to an excerpt from a documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin, the Berkeley-born author who died last week.
The Berkeley bookstore many residents wouldn’t know to look for
The Friends bookstore is stocked with donations from the community. Some are re-donated. Most are sold for under $3 to support the Berkeley Library. A few are exciting discoveries.
Elizabeth Rosner’s ‘Survivor Café’ is a deeply moving memoir
This Berkeley author, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, has written an affecting memoir that explores the impact of her parents’ experiences on her own life.
Want to be a writer? Grant Faulkner and NaNoWriMo can help you do that in a month
Grant Faulker is helping 400,000 people write a novel this month. He also has a new book that helps writers tap into their creativity.
Laurie Ann Doyle explores missing people in new story collection
Doyle writes about people who disappear, fathers who desert their children, divorce, and homelessness in stories set in San Francisco and Berkeley.
In her new YA novel, Alexandra Ballard tackles the difficult topic of eating disorders
The main character is 16-year-old Elizabeth, who has lost 40 pounds and four jean sizes in just a few months.
In Jesse Kellerman’s bestselling crime novel, Berkeley is a character
Jesse Kellerman has set his new book, which he wrote with his father, in Berkeley. It features a deputy sheriff working for the coroner's bureau.
Some great summer fiction picks that have a Berkeley connection
There is no shortage of great books with a Berkeley theme to pick up this summer.
In new memoir, Elizabeth Farnsworth takes ‘a train through time’
The former chief correspondent of PBS’ NewsHour, has written a memoir that weaves a child’s imaginative adventures with vivid memories from her war reporting.
Joe Lurie: Fostering intercultural understanding
Joe Lurie has spent most of his adult life interacting and engaging with other cultures and promoting cross-cultural understanding. As a young man, he served in the Peace Corps in Kenya, the beginning of his life of “intercultural encounters.”
Review: Michael Lewis’ ‘The Undoing Project’
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis
