Oakley Hall @ UC Berkeley

[Tara Brady]

How wonderful.

If anyone could, I don't know, make a mix tape and put it up?

Why should technology always fall into the wrong hands?

Let's think like the Salvation Army, people!

Get the ref?

Of course you all do.



On 17/01/2008, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fiction readers get their moment in the campus spotlight
> Story Hour in the Library series debuts next week
>
> By Wendy Edelstein, Public Affairs | 16 January 2008
>
> The campus's popular Lunch Poems series will gain a prose companion
> when Story Hour in the Library debuts next Thursday, Jan. 24, at 5
> p.m. in Doe Library's Morrison Library. Oakley Hall, author of more
> than 20 novels, including Warlock, a finalist for the 1958 Pulitzer
> Prize in fiction, will be Story Hour's inaugural reader.
>
> [...]
>
> Writing and fostering good fiction has been Oakley Hall's focus for
> longer than half a century. He published his first novel, Murder City,
> in 1949, and his most recent, Love and War in California, last year.
> Hall, who directed the writing program at UC Irvine for 20 years, is
> considered the dean of West Coast writers. He's also the co-founder of
> the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, a highly respected annual
> writers' conference.
>
> Among the writers Hall has influenced are Thomas Pynchon, Richard
> Ford, and Michael Chabon, the author of The Amazing Adventures of
> Kavalier and Clay (which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction) and,
> more recently, Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure. Chabon, who
> studied with Hall at UC Irvine, will be interviewing his former
> teacher before the reading.
>
> [...]
>
> Oakley Hall with Michael Chabon
> Thursday, Jan. 24, 5 p.m. Morrison Library, Doe Library
>
> http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/01/16_storyhour.shtml
>
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