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Slow Reading Dinners at UPB

Dinner and Reading Gatherings on the fourth Monday of each month

Join us around UPB’s great table, where we will eat and talk about reading in the slow lane. We will enjoy wine and edibles prepared by the Musical Offering’s genius chef Erick Balbuena, featuring many ingredients gathered from the Berkeley Hills. We ask everyone to bring a paragraph or a few words you love that must be read carefully, and savored slowly.  Martin Holden and Bill McClung, hosts

6 to 8 on March 22 and April 26

$40 per person, wine, tax, and gratuity included

($15 for students and starving artists)

Reservations please at outreach@universitypressbooks.com

Or at the UPB Front Counter, or reply to this posting.

UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS/BERKELEY

2430 BANCROFT WAY 548-0585

 

 

 

 

Juan Garcia reading from "Soil and Civilization, January 2010

 

 

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UPB: About Authors and Readers

“We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavenly and the earthly world.”

That’s Emerson on Goethe in Richardson, First We Read, Then We Write (Iowa, 2009), which I am nominating for UPB’s Best Gift Book of the Year.

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