Berkeley English Faculty

Thomas Farber

Senior Lecturer

Wheeler Hall, room 476
by appt only
tfar@berkeley.edu

Specialties

Creative Writing

Professional Statement

Besides my books—short fiction, novels, creative nonfiction, the epigrammatic, and screenplays—I'm Editor-in-Chief of El Leon Literary Arts, an independent nonprofit press (www.elleonliteraryarts.org) with 37 titles thus far, two by former students in this department.

Visit www.thomasfarber.org

Books

Acting My Age

In Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins, and, ultimately the human species. Couching his observatio....(read more)

FIELDS:

Creative Writing

Here and Gone

Turning seventy, author Thomas Farber appraises the writing life, aging, love, his own fate, and ours. Thomas Farber's writing has always been characterized by the tension between the concision of its execution and the immensity of its concerns. H....(read more)

FIELDS:

Creative Writing

Foregone Conclusions: Equivoques, Aperçus, Spars & Catarrhs

Epigram: a terse observation aspiring to the universal and irreducible. Generally about human foible or fate. Relies on paradox, hyperbole, or wordplay to compel a flash of recognition. Kissing cousin of axioms, parables, maxims, apothegms, and Zen ....(read more)