It’s been a while since the Modern Authors Collection here in Graduate Services added a few writers to its numbers. All that changed in October. This is a treat without the trick you could say, which is not to say these new additions aren’t language’s magic magicians. What’s more, one of these writers is a professor right here at UC Berkeley. And another is married to a professor at UC Berkeley, who counts himself a member of the Modern Authors Collection. The first Modern Authors Collection couple happening right here and right now. Novelists, Poets, Play Writes, Screen Writers: These eight new XMACers have all the bases covered and though they might be one position short to field a team, that’s where you come in and take the mound dear reader. So, come on over to the Graduate Services Field housed in the Doe Library Memorial Stadium and play ball with the newest additions to the Modern Authors Collection: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jorie Graham, Alasdair Gray, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, James Kelman, Hanif Kureishi, Marilynne Robinson. We might not have all their books yet, but we will soon. And Go Giants! Enjoy.
I love Artists: New and Selected Poems by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Empathy by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Endocrinology by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith
Nest by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary v.1 and v.2 edited by Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels, and Irene Wotherspoon
The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham
The Errancy by Jorie Graham
Materialism by Jorie Graham
Never by Jorie Graham
Overlord by Jorie Graham
Photographs & Poems by Jorie Graham and Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Region of Unlikeness by Jorie Graham
The Beginner by Lyn Hejinian
The Fatalist by Lyn Hejinian
Happily by Lyn Hejinian
The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian
My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian
Slowly by Lyn Hejinian
Xenia by Arkadii Dragomoschenko translated by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova
Cascadia by Brenda Hillman
Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman
Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman
Pieces of Air in the Epic by Brenda Hillman
Practical Water by Brenda Hillman
Saga/Circus by Lyn Hejinian
Sight by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino
The Burn by James Kelman
The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
A Disaffection by James Kelman
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
Not Not While the Giro by James Kelman
Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural & Political by James Kelman
Birds of Passage by Hanif Kureishi
The Body and Seven Stories by Hanif Kureishi
Collected Screenplays 1: My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, London Kills Me, My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
My Beautiful Laundrette by Hanif Kureishi
My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
Plays 1: The King and Me, Outskirts, Borderline, Birds of Passage by Hanif Kureishi
Sammy And Rosie Get Laid: The Script and the Diary by Hanif Kureishi
Sleep With Me by Hanif Kureishi
Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson