Announcing a new prose reading series hosted by English department faculty Vikram Chandra and Melanie Abrams, and featuring distinguished prose writers from the Bay Area and beyond.
Thursday, 5 - 6 pm • Admission Free
Michael Chabon, 09.18.08 | Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise, 10.09.08 | Cornelia Nixon, 11.13.08 | Sylvia Brownrigg, 09.11.08 | Judith Freeman, 02.12.09 | ZZ Packer , 03.12.09 | Vendela Vida, 04.09.09 | Student Reading, 05.07.09
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last year's series
September 18, 2008
Michael Chabon
Morrison Library, 5 – 6 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer Michael Chabon has been hailed as "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation" (The Virginia Quarterly Review). Chabon’s books include Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and most recently, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. This series kick-off event will be followed by a book sale and reception.
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October 9, 2008
Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Born in 1940 in Calcutta, Bharati Mukherjee spent her childhood in India and Britain before moving to the United States. Her celebrated titles include Days and Nights in Calcutta and The Middleman and Other Stories. Clark Blaise has published numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including If I Were Me and Lunar Attractions. Both serve as faculty in Berkeley's English department, and they have been married to each other for 45 years.
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November 13, 2008
[HOWARD NORMAN - cancelled]
Cornelia Nixon
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Cornelia Nixon’s books include Now You See It and Angels Go Naked, and a book of literary criticism on D.H. Lawrence. She is the winner of two O. Henry Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, a Nelson Algren Award and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. Nixon recently completed Jarrettsville, a civil war novel to be published by Counterpoint Press in the fall of 2009, and is working on both a surfing novel and a memoir. A Berkeley alumna, she is on the faculty at Mills College.
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December 11, 2008
Sylvia Brownrigg
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Sylvia Brownrigg’s newest novel, Morality Tale, is an analysis of a modern marriage which The New York Times Book Review calls “divinely deadpan.” She has written four other works of fiction, including the New York Times Notable Book The Metaphysical Touch and the Lambda Award-winning Pages for You. She divides her time between Berkeley and England.
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February 12, 2009
Judith Freeman
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Judith Freeman’s The Long Embrace (2007)— about novelist Raymond Chandler and his wife—was described as “part biography, part detective story, part love story, and part séance” by novelist Janet Fitch. Freeman’s novel Red Water was named one of the Los Angeles Times’ 100 Best Books of 2002. She divides her time between rural Idaho and Los Angeles, where she teaches in the writing program at the University of Southern California.
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March 12, 2009
ZZ Packer
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, ZZ Packer has received a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award, Wallace Stegner and Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Whiting Award. Her acclaimed 2003 collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere features eight stories whose subjects range from Girl Scouts to expatriates in Japan. Originally from Chicago, Packer is currently writing a novel set in the post-Civil War period.
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April 9, 2009
Vendela Vida
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Vendela Vida is the author of the novels Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and And Now You Can Go, both of which were New York Times Notable Books. Publisher's Weekly praises her "lean, absorbing" prose and the "high drama" of her storytelling. She is the a co-editor of The Believer magazine, the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, and a founding board member and teacher at San Francisco’s 826 Valencia, a nonprofit youth writing lab.
May 7, 2009
Student Reading
190 Doe Library (across from the Morrison Library), 5 – 6 pm
Story Hour in the Library celebrates the student writers in our community with its first student reading. The event will feature short excepts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes, Story Hour in the Library interns, and faculty nominees.
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