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The Art of Publishing at UPB

On December 13, 2010, three legendary local publishers  – Malcolm Margolin, Lynne Withey, and Ernest Callenbach — came to UPB to talk about the joys and challenges of publishing in Berkeley over the last 50 years, mainly at the University of California Press and Heyday Books, where there has been an immense outpouring of creativity. A smudge on the lens of the house camera rendered most images useless, but something about the one below seems almost right as Malcolm Margolin sometimes describes himself as lost in a cloud of metaphors for his love of Heyday and publishing, and Lynne Withey sternly reminded us that university publishing is a business.

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