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April showers bring books of knowledge, or something to that effect. Whatever the saying, the important thing is there are a lot of new books in Graduate Services this month. Now, did Easter make you want to get your religious on and go heaven bound? Well, step away from the ledge and get back in Graduate Services so you can check out Dante’s Eddie Money maker for those two tickets to Paradiso, because the only ledge you should be on is the knowledge. That said, you can’t take the book home tonight, or any night, since our collection is non-circulating. But you know that, and you realize Graduate Services is where Dante and Beatrice would rather be hanging with you anyway. When you’re done with Dante, you can read the letters of Saul Bellow and see what he thought about Easter or Dante. Then you can move on to some Heidegger, a bit of James Kelman, and a few books by this year’s Avenali Lecturer, Joyce Carol Oates. Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Peter Matthiessen among others are also represented this month in our Modern Authors Collection, with Mr. Rushdie being the newest member. And if you ever wanted to take a class from the poet Charles Olson, you can come here and read his Muthologos, otherwise know as a book of his lectures and interviews. Rain or shine we are open the hours posted outside our door and on our website, so come on down and be Mr. Olson’s student or his interviewer. Role playing can be fun. Enjoy.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri volume 3: Paradiso translated by Robert M. Durling

Saul Bellow: Letters edited by Benjamin Taylor

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India by Bernard S. Cohn

The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan

Country Path Conversations by Martin Heidegger

Translated Accounts by James Kelman

My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi

End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen

Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V.S. Naipaul

Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates

Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews by Charles Olson edited by Ralph Maud

Luka and the Fire of LIfe by Salman Rushdie

The Butcher’s Apron by Diane Wakoski

Anterooms by Richard Wilbur

Not many books marching into Graduate Services this March. Hey, maybe some are still on Spring Break. A detour to Cancun before showing up here in April. Despite Spring Break and Saint Patrick’s Day, Samuel Beckett’s Selected Poems, 1930-1989 made it on to our shelves. Graduate Services also got two new books from one of the newest members of the Modern Authors Collection, Hanif Kureishi. There is also monographs from Julia Kristeva and Arthur Schopenhauer. (Do you think Kristeva’s About Chinese Women got waylaid by the Chinese New Year in Februrary, landing it here during the month of March? Me too.) Besides new books, many replacement copies of missing books in the collection came in last month. You could say our collection went under a monografting operation. If there is a book you need that has been listed as missing, well maybe that book can now experience that beautiful feeling of being needed. Just like bread in the early stages. Enjoy.

Selected Poems 1930-1989 by Samuel Beckett

About Chinese Women by Julia Kristeva

Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

Venus by Hanif Kureishi

The World As Will and Presentation Volume Two by Arthur Schopenhauer and translated by David Carus and Richard E Aquila

More new books in Graduate Services this month. (No alarms and no surprises there.) The big names with the big brains are here–Deleuze, Derrida, and Jameson–along with the big hearts–Ashbery, Beckett, Baldwin, Wakoski, and Oates. But that’s not all, if you come in at all in the next month, you’ll find our new book shelf containes some distinguished UC Berkeley professors (well, books by them that is): Eric Naiman, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Ishmael Reed, and Mark Brillant (come read his book and see if the man lives up to the name). And if you can’t wait for the next event to be put on by the Townsend Center here at UC Berkeley, you can come on over to Graduate Services and read numbers 2 and 3 of the Townsend Papers in the Humanities series–No. 1 is already in our collection. It’s just like being there, but you’re here. February. What a month! Enjoy.

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: A Longman Cultural Edition edited by Oliver Arnold

The Third Citizen: Shakespeare’s Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons by Oliver Arnold

The Townsend Papers in the Humanities No. 2: Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987 by John Ashbery

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett with a preface by Mary Bryden

The Townsend Papers in the Humanities No.3: Art and Aesthetics After Adorno by J.M. Bernstein, Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Ales Erjavec, Robert Kaufman, and Fred Rush

Random Possession by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-93 by Paul Bowles

The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 by Mark Brilliant

Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of Human Nature by Gilles Deleuze

Athens, Still Remains: The Photography of Jean-Francois Bonhomme by Jacques Derrida

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu

Fin de Siecle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Captial by Jen Hanssen

Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson

Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh by Baber Johansen

Lean Tales by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray

The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi

School by David Mamet

Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism, and the Boundary Event by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 by Rhodes Murphey

Nabokov, Perversely by Eric Naiman

In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews by Joyce Carol Oates

A Companion to Portuguese Literature edited by Stephen Parkinson, Claudia Pazos Alonso, and T.F. Earle

The Plays by Ishmael Reed

From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the America’s, 1900-2002 edited by Ishmael Reed

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jean-Paul Sartre edited by Robert Denoon Cumming

The Diamond Dog: Poems by Diane Wakoski

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker

Kicking off a new year and getting back in the groove of another semester is the name of the game come January. When we opened the doors after our annual holiday closure what do you think we found? Books and more books. Books from UC Berkeley professors Joel Altman, John Searle, Donna V. Jones, and Michael Rubinstein (whose book Public Works I can’t wait to read), as well as books by Modern Author members Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, James Kelman, David Rabe, and Louis MacNeice. They all graced the shelves of Graduate Services this first month of 2011. Hannah Arendt, Chantal Mouffe, Elizabeth Bronfen, Zygmunt Bauman, and David Harvey also threw their hats into the ring this month for you to try on–but beware, these are big hats. (And speaking of hats, or to be more specific, helmets, UC Berkeley graduate Aaron Rodgers will quarterback the Green Bay Packers in this year’s Super Bowl. We’ll all be cheese heads come February 6th.) Yes, January brought us some great books to kick off 2011, so get your read on. And Enjoy.

The Improbability of Othello by Joel Altman

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt

Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality by Zygmunt Bauman

All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett

Over Her Dead Body: Death. Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen

Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts by WIlliam Burroughs

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Third Edition edited by Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman

The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones

The Good Times by James Kelman

Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison

Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages by A.J. Minnis

The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe

Debating World Literature edited by Christopher Prendergast

Dinosaurs on the Roof by David Rabe

Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial by Michael Rubenstein

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language by John R. Searle

Not many new books hitting the shelves in December. But like I’ve said in the past, its about quality, not quanity. And I’m not trying to wind you up as the semester is winding down, but take a look at the books below. One book takes a broad look at the last century (was it really just 100 years 10 years ago you might ask yourself), while another puts the 1970’s in perspective. Break out the head bands and platform shoes, by which I mean head on over to American Apparel, and think about cranking Zeppelin while you wait in long lines to get gas. Pretend that cozy chair in Graduate Services is your Trans Am and kill the time waiting by reading some stories from James Kelman’s Busted Scotch, or the correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac–who I am sure loved them some scotch and probably have something to say about being busted. The Holidays are here again. The semester is ending. Time to enjoy some outside reading…that takes place inside Graduate Services during our abbreviated holiday hours. Enjoy.

The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi

The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel J. Sargent

Busted Scotch: Selected Stories by James Kelman

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford

November was a great month here in the Bay Area. Besides the Giants winning it all for the first time since moving out from New York, Graduate Services saw more books by the giants of literature roll in. Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jorie Graham, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, James Kelman, and Hanif Kureishi all rounded the bases to get here in Graduate Services this November. But just because these recent additions are the new blood of the Modern Authors Collection, let’s not forget some of the ones who have been hanging around here for years getting the job done. Sure Bumgarner is great, but let’s give some props to the Matt Cains of the Modern Authors Collection. Books from John Betjeman and David Rabe are now here, as well as Human Chain, the new one from the great Seamus Heaney–a true giant of poetry. We also got a few new editions of classics from two giants of philosophy: Meditations on First Philosophy by Decartes and a new edition of The World as Will and Presentation by Arthur Schopenhauer. Did you know Schopenhaur thought Hegel was a charlatan, and so scheduled his classes at the University of Berlin to coincide with Hegel’s? He sure did. (It must have been like the World Series, but in Philosophy instead of baseball, in Germany instead of San Francisco, and in the 19th century, instead of this last November.) To Schopenhauer’s dismay everyone went to Hegel’s lectures and only a few turned up for his. Yep, it’s true. But there were no losers there at the University of Berlin as both were giants of philosophy. Everyone was a winner. Now, with all the giants in their respective fields teaching here at UC Berkeley, there are bound to be a few classes competing for your attention. Let’s just hope it’s not on purpose. But if it is, remember, everyone wins. And speaking of great professors and winning, we got some books from some giants at UC Berkeley this month. Samuel Otter, Martin Jay, and XMACer Lyn Hejinian all delivered. That said, this is not a competition, just coincidence. Remember everyone wins. So, come on down and check out the new books in Graduate Services that arrived this November, which besides the books below also includes A Mask of Motion by Lyn Hejinian and Pack Rat Sieve by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Just remember, our collection does not circulate, so you can’t actually check them out. Enjoy. (Giants Win!)

The Heat Bird by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Sphericity by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Meditations on First Philosophy with Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Decartes translated by Michael Moriarty

On Trains by John Betjeman edited by Jonathan Glancey

Sea Change by Jorie Graham

Swarm by Jorie Graham

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney

A Border Comedy by Lyn Hejinian

The Cell by Lyn Hejinian

The Hunt by Lyn Hejinian

Fortress by Brenda Hillman

The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics by Martin Jay

Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman

The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi

London Kills Me: Three Screenplays and Four Essays by Hanif Kureishi

Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter

The Black Monk and The Dog Problem: Two Plays by David Rabe

A Primative Heart: Stories by David Rabe

The World As Will and Presentation Volume One by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by Richard E. Aquila

Only two books made their way to us this month. That said, these are two great books! Not only did Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second–and last–novel become not so invisible anymore, but the second edition of the Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism appeared. Who made the cut this time, and who got cut out from the first edition…or should I saw got shot out of the canon? Were you happy with the editors’ choices? If not, get to writing about some of the guys left out. It’s your research and your papers that will establish or reestablish the guys with only one name needed as a reference point. It’s two books this month, but books with enough charater–and pages–to more than make up for a slow July on the new books shelf here in Graduate Services. Enjoy.

Three Days Before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison

The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism 2nd Edition edited by Vincent B. Leitch

It’s the dog days of August, and slowly but surely we are gathering steam for the academic year. Last month we had two new books on the new book shelf; this month: three. Look out September, it’s going be huge! No time to get ahead of ourselves though, what we got here is some good stuff. The new book from Helene Cixous, as well as bibliograpies for both John Updike and Gore Vidal. Thank god Norman Mailer wasn’t involved. So come on in and give them a pat on the back and rub their little tummies. Especially if you are suffering from too much summer-time on you hands and experiencing academic withdrawal. They like it and so will you. Soon everything will be back to normal and write side up. Trust me. Enjoy.

So Close by Helene Cixous

John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007 by Jack De Bellis and Michael Broomfield

Gore Vidal: A Bibliography, 1940-2009 by Steven Abbott

Lots of books this month to wander around in like Leopold Bloom wanders the Dublin Streets on June 16. If you liked that poetry, you’re going to love the pros at work we got for you below–two UC Berkeley connected Roberts: Hass and Pinskey (we won’t mention the fact they both have Stanford affiliations). What’s more, Robert Hass isn’t the only other faculty member with a new book in Graduate Services this June. Janet Adelman and Kaja Silverman’s books, Blood Relations and Flesh of My Flesh respectively, are here and might stick in your mind after getting under your skin. And when talking about getting under your skin, has any other novel not named Naked Lunch gotten under anybody’s skin as much as Naked Lunch? Furthermore, in the month that gives us an annual day in which to appreciate James Joyce’s once banned Ulysses, is it a coincidence Graduate Services received the 50th anniversary edition of William S. Burroughs’ classic? Maybe the answers to these questions can be found in the books below by Virilio, Heidegger, Ranciere and Negri. They do have a lot of things to say about tough questions. Well, time to go; I can feel the heat closing in. After all, it is summer! Enjoy.

Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice by Janet Adelman

Occupant by Edward Albee

Naked Lunch: 50th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs

Medieval Grammar & Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 edited by Rita Copeland and Ineke Slutter

Teaching World Literature edited by David Damrosch

Art as Experience by John Dewey

The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass

Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt Whitman edited and introduction by Robert Hass

Logic: The Question of Truth by Martin Heidegger

Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language by Martin Heidegger

Theatre by David Mamet

The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy edited by John Mullarkey and Beth Lord

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War, Letters & Diaries 1939-45 edited by Peter J Conradi

Goodbye Mr. Socialism by Antonio Negri

Cybele by Joyce Carol Oates

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates

Before Anger: The Devil Inside Him and Personal Enemy by John Osborne

Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 edited by Julie Peakman

History of My Heart by Robert Pinsky

The Aesthetic Unconscious by Jacques Ranciere

Flesh of My Flesh by Kaja Silverman

Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig

The University of Disaster by Paul Virilio

Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young