One book is written by Kamala Harris’ childhood best friend and explores how Berkeley shaped their Black consciousness.
Books
Posted inNosh Guides
Four new cookbooks from East Bay authors
These cookbooks from Oakland and Fremont authors all celebrate, educate and inspire.
Posted inObituaries
Remembering Floyd Salas, novelist, boxing coach, social activist
Floyd Salas served as PEN Oakland’s president and famously confronted Saul Bellow at a reading at SF State.
Posted inBusiness
Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore in The Elmwood has new owners
The new owners, who have experience in sales and the publishing world, will take over on Nov. 1.
Posted inCommunity
Betty Reid Soskin, nation’s oldest park ranger, turns 100
In Betty Reid Soskin’s extraordinary life, she’s also dated Jackie Robinson, co-founded Reid’s Records in Berkeley and delivered cash for the Black Panthers.
Posted inArts
Berkeley Law dean’s book reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, casts a cold eye on the post-Warren court in “Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.”
Posted inObituaries
Remembering Jonathan Rinzler, bestselling author of ‘Star Wars’ books
Rinzler, 58, attended Berkeley High School and went on to have a prodigious career as a bestselling author of cinematic history books about ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Indiana Jones’ and other blockbuster films.
Posted inArts
Book review: Talbot siblings’ new book profiles radical change-makers of 1960s and ’70s
In ‘By the Light of Burning Dreams,’ David and Margaret Talbot write about sweeping cultural transformation through profiles of people like Cesar Chavez, Bobby Seale, Anne Weills and Heather Booth.
Posted inArts
Diane Johnson’s 12th novel explores Franco-American relations, money and transatlantic love
She observes the French with an outsider’s eye but has an insider’s knowledge of everything from French eating and romantic proclivities to French inheritance law.
Posted inArts
12 new books by Berkeley authors to read in the summer of 2021
Some of the city’s most prominent authors have new books out, including Alice Waters, Michael Lewis and Michael Pollan.
Posted inCity
Berkeley Public Library to reopen some branches after 14-month closure
Patrons will be able to walk into the North Branch on May 28, the West Branch on June 7, and the Central Branch on June 15.
Posted inArts
‘Calling a thing a thing’: Anna Sale on the art of hard conversations
The ‘Death, Sex & Money’ podcast host, Berkeley resident, and now book author, says not every relationship can be healed and not every conflict can be resolved. And that’s OK.