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The Function of Criticism in the Present Time: A Conversation with A. S. Byatt

On February 25th, spectators filled all 150 chairs in Wheeler’s Maude Fife auditorium to catch a glimpse of esteemed novelist and critic A.S. Byatt.

Holloway Poetry Series: Major Jackson + Allison Neal

The Holloway Poetry Series hosted a reading by Major Jackson on Tuesday, February 19. This was Holloway’s second event of the Spring semester, and around 40 professors, graduate students, undergraduates, and Berkeley residents showed up to make it a success.

The Lure of the Archive (I): Amanda Licato pursues the parallel lives of Georgia O’Keeffe and Jean Toomer

Kicking off a new series of archival reflections by our undergraduates is a short piece from Amanda Licato (‘13), who visited the Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe and the Jean Toomer archives at Yale’s Beinecke Library.

New Volume of Essays Published in Honor of Stephen Booth

In February 2012 Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, brought forth a festschrift of essays in honor of Professor Emeritus Stephen Booth: forty short essays demonstrating various sorts of close reading in honor of the closest of all close readers.

Holloway Poetry Series: Dawn Lundy Martin + Hugo Garcia Manriquez (Mixed Blood Project)

The Holloway Poetry Series began its Spring program with Dawn Lundy Martin on Tuesday, January 29th, who was brought to campus in collaboration with the Mixed Blood Project.