Congratulations to Idra Novey, author of Take What You Need on being a finalist for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Read about this year's finalists on our website. Link in bio.

✨🐻 Premiering tonight! 📺✨

Don’t miss HBO’s “The Sympathizer,” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by UC Berkeley alum Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Q&A: We recently talked with Nguyen about activism, libraries, and life at Cal.

⏩ ucberk.li/nguyen

Watch/Listen to my reading Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley UC Berkeley Library, beginning and ending with generous words by Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Noah Warren: t.ly/e2NDf. My dream/poem in memory of Palestinian poet, writer, professor, activist Refaat Alareer begins at 9:40, ends at 14:50.

This year’s Gayley Lecture will be presented by Professor Stephen Best, Rachael Anderson Stageberg Chair in English and Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Professor Best’s lecture is entitled “Baldwin’s Inarticulacy.” 5 PM, Thursday, April 18, Wheeler Hall, 315

Today at 5!

Can’t wait for summer? 🌞📚

Get started on these summertime reads, picked by students, faculty, and staff:

🚔 “The Riders Come Out at Night” by Ali Winston + Darwin BondGraham

💙 “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown

✨ “Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange

🔗 reading.berkeley.edu

“Berkeley was the start of an emotional journey for me.” ✨💙🐻

Before becoming a famous author, Viet Thanh Nguyen was a Bear (and Library employee).

We talked to Nguyen about activism, his go-to spots on campus, and the class that “radicalized” him.

⏩ ucberk.li/nguyen

Session D; English; 4 Units; Meets L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature UC Berkeley English

Don't forget: Dr. Katherine Schaap Williams is giving a talk tomorrow! Come see 'Cripping Performance in Shakespeare's Disability Play'— 4/9/24, 430pm, in the Maude Fife room/Wheeler 315.
UC Berkeley English
UC Berkeley Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Julia Fawcett
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities
Info at: tinyurl.com/4ucudjn8

‼️Next Thursday, 4/11, at 5‼️ We’re delighted to welcome author and Professor Cristina Rivera Garza, who will deliver the 2024 lecture in the Bedri Distinguished Writers Series, titled “The Affective Archives: Writing, Bodies, and Collective Memory.”

Session D; English; 4 Units; Meets L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature UC Berkeley English

TODAY

“Shimoda blurs boundaries in order to occupy interstitial spaces.” ✨

— Los Angeles Review of Books

Today: Immerse yourself in poetry through a captivating reading by …

🌷 Brandon Shimoda 🌷

⏰ 12:10 p.m.
📍 Morrison Library (inside Doe)
🔗 lunchpoems.berkeley.edu

This is tomorrow!

Session D; English; 4 Units; Meets L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature UC Berkeley English

We hope you can join us on Monday, April 8th, when we’ll welcome poet and author Fady Joudah for a poetry reading! This event will start at 6 PM in the Maude Fife Room. Free and open to the public.

Today!

we couldn't be more excited!
☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥 will be the last Lunch Poems reader of the academic year 🌷

This Thursday!!

Session D; English; 4 Units; Meets L&S Breadth: Arts & Literature and Philosophy & Values UC Berkeley English