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		<title>BEST BOOKSTORE: Expert Pick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“. . . a specialized, localized haven. . . University Press Books, offering a super and sizeable selection of niche. The store&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche on Slow Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Gillespie, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at Oxford University and Distinguished Professor for Medieval Studies this term at Berkeley offers this to our Slow Reading endeavours: Nietzsche Preface added to the 1886 edition of The Dawn: I have not been a philologist in vain – perhaps I am one yet: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Phrase I&#8217;m Going Through: My Life in Language by David Crystal, Routledge, 2009, paperback, $26.95.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading British linguist David Crystal&#8217;s autobiography.  Often hilarious, sometimes poignant, it&#8217;s a sheer delight.  The author&#8217;s curiosity and zest for everything linguistic (and beyond) is infectious.  John Lawler&#8217;s review of this book says of the first chapter, &#8220;Being a Linguist,&#8221; that &#8220;every linguist in the world will go yessing through this chapter.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Reading Dinners at UPB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dinner and Reading Gatherings on the fourth Monday of each month Join us around UPB&#8217;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&#8217;s genius chef Erick Balbuena, featuring many ingredients gathered from the Berkeley Hills. We ask everyone to bring a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Rules: An Eater&#8217;s Manual by Michael Pollan, $11 paper, Penguin Books, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eating wisdom from a Berkeley sage in bite-sized morsels we can enjoy every day. May save our lives, or at least make them better.  William McClung, UPB]]></description>
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		<title>Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books, Edited by Jo Steffens, Yale University Press, 2009, $20 cloth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A delightful set of meditations and lists (along with striking images of their heavily laden shelves and a gem of an essay by Walter Benjamin: “Unpacking My Library”) by several renowned contemporary architects who view their vocations and their passionate relations with printed volumes as bound up with a kindred aesthetic obsession, and for whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tamalpais Walking; Poetry, History, Prints by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder, cloth, $50, Heyday Books 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A premier Bay Area woodcut artist and one of our greatest living American poets collaborate on the most beautiful book I’ve seen this year—already a local bestseller because we should all own one. It is history, it is poetry, it is the history of local poetry and the art of local natural history. The woodcuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPB: About Authors and Readers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavenly and the earthly world.&#8221; That&#8217;s Emerson on Goethe in Richardson, First We Read, Then We Write (Iowa, 2009), which I am nominating for UPB&#8217;s Best Gift Book of the Year.]]></description>
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		<title>The Simple Act of Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the weather is turning cold, the type of book I seek out is one in which I can lose myself on a rainy day.  For this purpose I highly recommend Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy (HarperCollins, 1994).  At 1474 pages (and 2.5 pounds), this is not a book to be picked up lightly.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is it you are writing for, anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“You should start,” he told his young friend, “with no skeleton or plan.  The natural one will grow as you work. Knock away all scaffolding. Neither have exordium or peroration. What is it you are writing for, anyway? Because you have something new to say?  It is the test of the universities and I am glad [...]]]></description>
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