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

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 Past Events

Professor Cary Moskovitz of Duke University, an expert in teaching STEM writing and the lead principle investigator of the Text… Continue reading Past Events

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Lyn Hejinian and Daniel Benjamin‘s Art of Writing seminar, Collaborations, closes the semester with a public performance of their works.… Continue reading Past Events

Joseph Harris leads the Art of Teaching Writing Faculty Workshop, a condensed and tailored version for UC Berkeley faculty of Art of Writing’s Summer Institute.

Work on your academic projects, an article, a chapter, final research paper, memoir, or screenplay at Doe Library during National Novel Writing Month.

At the 2017 UC Student Veterans Summer Writing Workshop, student veterans from all 10 UC campuses gather to study and practice the art of storytelling.

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

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

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

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

An end-of-semester reception and reading for Art of Writing students. Writers participating in this semester’s seminars read from works-in-progress and… Continue reading Past Events