California Magazine Archive
Peter Dudley
Peter Dudley ’89 celebrates the November 13, 2024 release of the first collaborative book from his new publishing imprint, Gray Bear Publications. The book, RELIT: How to Rekindle Yourself in the Darkness of Compassion Fatigue, gives practical advice for avoiding and overcoming compassion fatigue and caregiver burnout. After publishing four novels and two poetry collections, […]
Cameron Walker
Cameron Walker ’99 published her debut short story collection, How to Capture Carbon, with What Books Press in October 2024. She is the author of the children’s book National Monuments of the U.S.A. (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), and of the essay collection Points of Light: Curious Essays on Science, Nature, […]
A Survival Guide for Difficult Conversations
By Nathalia AlcantaraGoldman School’s Erika Weissinger on how we can talk—and listen—across our deepest divides.
A Season of Discontent
By Nathalia AlcantaraThe Free Speech Movement, as reported in real time by California Monthly
John Starrels
John Starrels received his BA in political science from UC Berkeley in 1965, and went on to earn his doctoral degree in the same field from UC Santa Barbara in 1971. Soon thereafter, he accepted a position as assistant professor in George Washington University’s political science department where he taught throughout the 1970s. “I liked […]
Susan Robison
Susan Robison ’79 writes: A few days after I retired in 2019 I began writing Halley and the Mystery of the Lost Girls, a young adult historical adventure, about a 15 year old girl who goes with her father to India in 1952. Shortly after they arrive in Bombay (Mumbai) Halley discovers that the young […]
Jordan Berk
Jordan Berk ’08 just published his debut sci-fi novel, The Timestream Verdict, in September. It is a love letter to time travel fiction, and centers on a trial for the first-ever case of “temporal homicide,” time-travel murder, and the jury pulled in from across the modern timestream that must reach a critical verdict. The victim […]
Randolph Hall
As a Berkeley student, Randy Hall ’79, MS ’80, PhD ’82 was an original member of the student co-op Kingman Hall. Kingman Hall was named for Harry Kingman, a founder of the co-op system that has housed thousands of students over the decades. Kerr’s book The Uses of the University has been an inspiration for […]
Ann P Meredith
Ann P Meredith ’70 was chosen, along with 99 other lesbians, for GO magazine’s 100 Women We Love, Class of 2024.
John Garrison
John Garrison’s ’93 book, Red Hot + Blue, was published by Bloomsbury in September 2024. The book recounts the music’s industry’s first major response to the AIDS epidemic in the context of Garrison’s own coming of age story. More about John’s writing can be found at www.john-garrison.com.
Cal Athletes Let Fly at the Paris Games
By Margaret CullenThrowing, swimming and rowing all shone bright in the 2024 Olympics
Peggy Li
Peggy Li ’96 has one of her jewelry creations featured in the upcoming film from Searchlight Pictures – The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat. Costume designer Whitney Anne Adams selected Peggy’s Eye of the Sun Necklace to be worn throughout the film by the character of Barbara Jean, played by actress Sanaa Lathan. […]
