Publications – The Wheeler Column

Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor Featured in The New Yorker

Published date March 7, 2015

In December 2014, HarperCollins published Professor Scott Saul’s biography Becoming Richard Pryor. The book has been reviewed widely—in publications ranging from TIME and USA Today to The Sunday Times (UK) and The Independent (UK)—but perhaps the most perceptive treatment of the book was Joan Acocella’s review for The New Yorker, posted on the magazine’s website this past week.

In defense of writing for a “popular” audience

Published date September 28, 2014

Shannon Chamberlain is a seventh year graduate student in the department, specializing in eighteenth-century studies. Her dissertation is about Adam Smith and the rise of the British novel, and this summer, she had the opportunity to turn some of that research into a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly. This is her account of what it was like to write on academic subjects for a non-academic audience.

Student Publishes Powerful Essay on Sexual Violence at UC Berkeley

Published date July 25, 2014

Author Rebecca Solnit (’84) taught a non-fiction writing course in the English Department this past spring. A number of her students in that course have had their final pieces accepted for publication. The first to appear in print is this tough piece by Ariel Zepeda on sexual violence at UC Berkeley.

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Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor Featured in The New Yorker

In defense of writing for a “popular” audience

Student Publishes Powerful Essay on Sexual Violence at UC Berkeley