“. . . a specialized, localized haven. . . University Press Books, offering a super and sizeable selection of niche. The store’s intimate aesthetic is more a dream-library than a place of business. And this reflects its mindset, for the store is no profit-maximizing firm, but its own special ecosystem, privileging the small and the slow, and savoring rather than consuming. Its genres pay respect to the particularity of literature, where fiction and nonfiction become laughable barriers. The store further challenges artistic norms in breaking down the author-reader boundary that most stores favor; the writer events are dialogue rather than diatribe. University Press Books is my Mecca for scholarship and thought. And to borrow the words of poet Brenda Hillman, it is ‘the love of my life. Well, one of them.’” The Daily Californian, 15 April 2010, Hallie Kutak, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Berkeley Poetry Review.
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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 August 23, September 27, and October 25
$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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“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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