Spying the Secrets of Creativity
By Coby McDonaldIn late January of 1958, five of America’s most renowned writers converged in a repurposed frat house just off the Berkeley campus for what promised to be a long, strange weekend.
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Marshawn Lynch Acts Like an Actor
By the editors at California magazine… and other Berkeley movies, books, and entertainment
The Man Who Came to Class by Plane
By Bill Zhou, M.Eng. ’23 As told to Margie Cullen, M.J. ’22I really loved transportation growing up.
Stuck in the Middle
By Glen MartinKevin Sawyer is a man of many parts. He's a certified commercial and residential electrician. A trained paralegal. A skilled guitarist and pianist. He's also an inmate at San Quentin State Prison serving an indeterminate life sentence for burglary and sexual assault.
Nakata’s Smile: Unlocking the Diaries of Jack London’s Valet
By Aleta GeorgeThe reference librarian slid the archival container across the counter. “This looks like a fun box to look through,” he said. I smiled behind my face mask.
This Iconic Berkeley Bookstore Lives On After Closure
By Emily WilsonEastwind Books of Berkeley, which Beatrice and Harvey Dong took over in 1996 and ran until it closed at the end of April, had a mission to create a community.
Berkeley Bucks the Trend in Humanities
By Hayden RoysterEarly into his tenure as chancellor, Clark Kerr had a realization: Berkeley’s humanities were in crisis.
What to Read, Watch, and Listen to this Summer
By The editors of CaliforniaBerkeley’s best entertainment offerings
Publisher Wants Your Thrutopian Novel
By Leah WorthingtonAuthor and activist Aya de León talks about rewriting the climate narrative through pop fiction.
A Writer of Books Housed in Libraries
By Aleta GeorgeDorothy Lazard’s first library—the one that cracked open her world and made her love libraries—was the Western Addition Branch in San Francisco.
Special Edition of “What to Read, Watch, and Listen To”
By the editors of California magazineTry one of these this summer
Notes to Selves
By Margie CullenIn high school, one of Nancy Rubin’s teachers had his students write a letter to themselves that he surprised them with at the end of the semester.
