In 1962, when Joan Steinau Lester was 19 years old and living in New England, she fell in love with a young African-American writer. Her family disapproved, so the idealistic young woman ran off to New York City to join her boyfriend. The young couple married six months later — an act that was illegal […]
Alice Walker
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Marc Kelly dishes on the story behind Berkeley’s Soop
Owner Marc Kelly shares stories about his tiny takeaway business Soop in the Gourmet Ghetto.
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Michael Chabon calls himself overrated
Michael Chabon may be the best-known writer living in Berkeley (although other Pulitzer Prize winners, like Alice Walker, have lived here at times). He certainly is among the most-respected. The Wall Street Journal interviewed Chabon recently about the Bay Area literary life, which Chabon called a “vibrant, fun scene, and much less of a pressure […]