Events

A Conversation with Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (ONLINE EVENT) Click here to view the livestream. Chi Rainer Bornfree… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Prominent Russian writer Victor Erofeev offers a provocative exploration of the “new barbarism” of the 21st century, in which power eclipses justice.

Sanjay Shah offers guidance to students in a candid conversation about the realities of entertainment writing, from breaking into the industry to running a writers' room.

The earliest version of Cal’s R&C requirement appeared in 1919. Over a century later, the requirement remains substantially the same.… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, author, and visionary known for his critical stance on the direction of technology and… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Doreen St. Félix has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2017 and was named the magazine’s television critic in 2019.… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

While on vacation at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, their two… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Professor Cary Moskovitz of Duke University, an expert in teaching STEM writing and the lead principle investigator of the Text… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

This symposium, presented by the students of History of Art 192G, focuses on the built environment of Berkeley’s Northbrae and… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Joyce Carol Oates, author of over 70 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, is Professor Emerita of the Humanities at Princeton and has taught as a visiting professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her oeuvre confronts questions of interiority and violence, American history, and female experience.

Writing and Thinking in Two Languages Katrina Dodson, winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, reflects on why there is… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Emily Nemens, editor of the Paris Review, discusses the nature of editing, being an editor, and being a woman in a literary space.

Michael Lewis discusses his career as a writer, his writing practices, and the genesis of past, present, and future works.

Across his many books and articles, Carlo Rotella has teased out the mystery of craft: how someone learns to master a chosen domain, and then – through that mastery – transforms what’s possible within it.

Art of Writing hosts a conversation between editor Steve Wasserman and music critic Greil Marcus, whose collaboration spans 46 years and three books.

Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, is a scholar of race, gender, and law, and a prolific writer across a variety of genres

Professor Robert Reich, Goldman School of Public Policy, discusses the current political climate and his practices as a writer.

Brazilian novelist and poet Adriana Lisboa speaks with Candace Slater (Spanish & Portuguese) about the work of writing and translation.

Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa and Portuguese poet, critic, and translator Ana Luísa Amaral lead an intimate writing and translation workshop.

William Germano, Cooper Union, addresses the skill of diagnosing your scholarly work to recognize where dissertations end and books begin.