Praised by Time Out as “philosophical, formally innovative and fascinating,” Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around New York City and a pair of dialogues about walking—one of which takes place during a late-night ramble through Central Park. Join authors Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch as they perform excerpts from their profound, hilarious debut. “No ordinary tour guide, Ten Walks/Two Talks is an associative journey where scents, noises, people, and buildings are meticulously described through the eyes of intensely attentive explorers” (The Architect's Newspaper). Cotner lives in New York City. Fitch is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming's MFA Program. Berkeley's walkers and poet-philosophers must not miss this event!

Damion Searls's reader's edition of Thoreau's Journal, from beloved press New York Review Books, has been praised in the Washington Post, The Quarterly Conversation, and elsewhere as " a superb and uniquely accessible edition of an essential American masterpiece" (Booklist). Abridged from 7,000 pages and with insightful introductions by Searls and John Stilgoe, this beautiful volume is the first edition to give readers a feel for the scope and rhythms of Thoreau's great life-work. Searls will read from some of Thoreau's late-Aprils.

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