Writer Andrew Tonkovich describes how he and his family hung out with the former California poet laureate at Saul’s Deli and soaked in his tales and insights.
Books
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A year after his unexpected death, a new book from Richard Sala, the ‘cartooning master of the macabre’
Four richly illustrated novellas in a new collection showcase Sala’s unmistakable style that mixed humor, horror and mystery.
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Mrs. Dalloway’s, Berkeley’s 17-year-old bookstore of ‘literary and garden arts,’ is for sale
The two owners are hoping to find buyers who love books and the community as much as they do.
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Book review: Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Code Breaker’ looks at how CRISPR may change the world
UC Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for her part in unlocking the secrets of CRISPR.
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Book review: Annalee Newitz’s latest book ventures into urban history through the lens of archaeology
This book, ‘Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age,’ is, above all, a wide-angle portrait of archaeologists at work.
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Glenn Burke, an ‘extravagantly gifted’ baseball player, paid a price for being gay
Burke, who went to Berkeley High, played for the Oakland A’s and the Dodgers, who offered him $75,000 to marry a woman.
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In new biography of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, science is a ‘competitive sport’
Best-selling author Walter Issacson, who has written about Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, turns his eye to Doudna.
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Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman write thrillers ripped from the Berkeley headlines
‘Half Moon Bay,’ by the father and son duo, is just one of hundreds of novels published in the past few decades that have been set in Berkeley.
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Review: ‘The Admirals’ discusses Chester Nimitz, head of the US Pacific fleet and long time Berkeleyan
The joint biography looks at Chester Nimitz, William Halsey, William Leahy and Ernest King.
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Book review: From Aya de Leon, a brilliant thriller that exposes the FBI’s illegal tactics
Set in the East Bay, a young Black FBI lawyer is told to investigate a small group of eco-activist teens led by a charismatic Black man. Is the group really dangerous?
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Book review: ‘Driven’ traces development of self-driving cars, saga of the Berkeley man who stole industry secrets
Anthony Levandowski will serve 18 months in prison for stealing files from Google for his own autonomous car company.
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New book, ‘Island Visions,’ offers some California wonder while we’re all staying close to home
This beautiful, dynamic “untextbook” about the California Channel Islands was spearheaded by the two founders of Berkeley’s Pedal Born Pictures.