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UC Press To Publish Prestigious California-based Jung Journal

Beginning with the first issue of Volume 2, University of California Press Journals + Digital Publishing will become the publisher for Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, the quarterly journal of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Long known as The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, the journal has a distinguished history of publishing important papers in Jungian studies. In 2007 the journal evolved into Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, a title that better reflects both the scholarship covered in its pages and the broad range of international authors from across the academy and the arts whose work it contains. Peer-reviewed scholarly articles, poems, film reviews, book reviews, substantial art reviews with full-color reproductions, and obituaries make up the diverse content of Jung Journal. Click here for more information.

UC Press Congratulates Robert Hass on Winning the 2007 National Book Award for Poetry

University of California Press congratulates Robert Hass, whose most recent book, Time and Materials (Ecco/Harper Collins), has received the National Book Award for poetry.

Hass, a professor at UC Berkeley, is one of the four series editors (with Calvin Bedient, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman) of UC Press's New California Poetry series, which also garnered a National Book Award nomination in 2002 for Harryette Mullen's Sleeping with the Dictionary. The series, which began in 2000, has been widely recognized and reviewed. It is one of the most preeminent series in avant-garde and experimental poetry in the country.

In addition to his work on the series, Hass has been a great friend to UC Press and to the Berkeley community. Hass, an avid environmentalist and outdoorsman, is committed to environmental education. He was instrumental in organizing River of Words, a Berkeley-based organization, which inspires students to create artwork and poetry based on the environment. He has also encouraged the expansion of UC Press's California Natural History Guide series. Since the 1960s, the books have been read and used in the field by amateur naturalists of all ages.

Hass directs the Lunch Poems Reading Series, which takes place on the first Thursday of the Month at Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus. In 2005, UC Press published The Face of Poetry, which is based on the series and to which Hass contributed a foreword.

We are pleased that someone of such generous spirit and great talent has been recognized by the National Book Foundation.

Perfect Pairings on Epicurious List of Top 20 Essential Wine Books

Epicurious wine blogger Natalie MacLean reviewed Evan Goldstein's Perfect Pairings on her list of top 20 wine books: "One of the most comprehensive, accessible and authoritative guides on wine and food matching I've read. Evan Goldstein [is] a Master Sommelier and wine educator, knows his subject, yet makes it imminently interesting and enjoyable. There are also lots of delicious recipes. His book made me both thirsty and hungry!" Read the entire list here:

UC Press Re-launches The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan

The University of California Press and the Jess Collins Trust are pleased to announce the re-launch of an important publishing project: The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan. We are currently planning to issue six volumes: The H.D. Book; Early Poems, Plays, and Prose; Later Poems, Plays, and Prose; Critical Prose; and two further volumes with contents to be determined. We are talking to prospective volume editors and anticipate that the first of these volumes will be ready for production in three years, with publication as early as Fall of 2011. We have also invited a number of scholars, critics, and poets to join an advisory board, which will provide support and advice to volume editors and to University of California Press.

Since the 1960s, Robert Duncan's seminal poetic works have been published by New Directions (The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, and Bending the Bow). Most recently, New Directions published Duncan's Selected Poems (1995), A Selected Prose (1997), and Ground Work I & II in a combined volume (2006). All the New Directions individual editions will continue to be available, and this project shall proceed with their collaboration.

The road leading up to this announcement has not been without significant challenges. The project was originally initiated in 1987 and 1988 by Robert Duncan and an editorial board that included Robert Bertholf, Robert Creeley, Michael Davidson, and William McPheron. Duncan died in 1988, and all but Robert Bertholf eventually resigned from the editorial board. Robert Bertholf's contribution to the legacy of Robert Duncan has been significant and important, and we wish we could have found a way to proceed on the project with his continued involvement. In 2007, the Jess Collins Trust confirmed that the copyrights to Robert Duncan's writings had passed to Jess upon Duncan's death. At that time, Christopher Wagstaff and Mary Margaret Sloan, on behalf of the Trust, reaffirmed their commitment to seeing through the Collected Writings project with University of California Press. The Trust will provide a needed grant toward the publication of each volume. In addition, a portion of royalties generated from publication of Robert Duncan's work will be used to further encourage and benefit dissemination, publication, and study of the work of Robert Duncan and Jess.

Publication of the Collected Writings is long overdue, and we look forward to publishing volumes worthy of both the University of California Press imprint and the great legacy of Robert Duncan.

Bill Boyarsky Interviewed by Larry Mantle on Airtalk

Bill Boyarsky, the author of Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics, was interviewed by Larry Mantle on KPCC's Airtalk.  Click here to listen to the complete interview from KPCC.  (Requires RealPlayer to be installed on your computer.)

University of California Launches Mark Twain Project Online

The University of California is pleased to announce the launch of the beta version of Mark Twain Project Online (www.marktwainproject.org), a digital critical edition of the writings of Mark Twain that is available online at no charge to institutions or individuals

Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) applies innovative technology to more than four decades of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.

MTPO is a joint undertaking of the Mark Twain Papers and Project, the California Digital Library, and University of California Press. It is funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Mark Twain Project, and is supported by a number of institutions and individuals. The Mark Twain Foundation, a perpetual charitable trust that possesses the publication rights to all of Mark Twain’s writings, has given UC Press and Mark Twain Project Online exclusive rights to publish copyright-protected writings by Mark Twain, both in print and electronically.

At beta launch, the site will include more than twenty-three hundred letters written between 1853 and 1880, including nearly 100 facsimiles of originals. Users will also be able to search for information about Mark Twain's complete correspondence across his entire life, including letters to him and his family. In future years, the site will release more of the nearly ten thousand known letters, including many never-before published; electronic editions of many of Mark Twain’s most famous literary works; the most complete catalog of Mark Twain's writings currently available; and, in 2010, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, never before published in its complete form.

"Mark Twain Project Online is an extraordinary resource for scholars, teachers, and ordinary readers. Materials that previously could be examined only by scholars fortunate enough to be able to visit the Mark Twain Project in The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley will now be available worldwide to anyone with an interest in Mark Twain—and that's a cause for celebration, " Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, said.

The customizable interface provides a powerful reading and research experience. The site offers users unprecedented access to authoritative transcriptions of Mark Twain’s writings and to compare those transcriptions side by side with facsimiles when available. Researchers can gather and store digital citations and links to selected documents, images, and other resources. These features are supported, in large part, by the California Digital Library’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) and the ongoing work of The Textual Encoding Initiative (TEI).

Mark Twain Project Online demonstrates the great advantages of digital presentation and will be a model for future digital scholarly work. “The Mark Twain Project Online is an exciting initiative that will make a fundamental literary and biographical archive available to scholars and students. MTPO offers easy access through a sophisticated web interface and growing and comprehensive scope. This project has the potential to become a model for Web accessibility to foundational scholarly resources,” Richard Terdiman, author of Body and Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict, said.

For more information about Mark Twain Project Online, including more about the making of this landmark online publication, please visit http://www.marktwainproject.org