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	<description>Ten Thousand Minds On Fire</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 paragraph [...]]]></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
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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.
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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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		<title>National Bookstore Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The estimable Harvard/MIT/Yale representative, Patricia Nelson, writes this week:
What’s a day without a bookstore? We cherish you all as wonderful retreats, browsing heavens, the perfect place to meet, the perfect date, the perfect outing with children, a wonderful daily oasis, a welcoming place of solitude, a magic theater of words, a generous place of discussion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaja Silverman at UPB/Musical Offering, 29 October 2009</title>
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Kaja Silverman reads Flesh of My Flesh, in conversation with Judith Butler and Anne Wagner.


From the description of Flesh of My Flesh (Stanford University Press):
What is a woman?  What is a man?  How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for “wholeness” refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Water by Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan, 2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hillman’s lyric experimentalism, as displayed in Practical Water, her eighth collection of poetry and third installment in a proposed tetralogy on the elements, offers an unlikely mediation between aesthetic and political concerns. Interested in engaging both traditions, Hillman rejects any partitioning that would disallow her political or aesthetical concerns from being hashed out simultaneously in [...]]]></description>
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