Wheeler Hall, room 476
3:00-3:30 and 6:30-8 Tues, 2017
tfar@berkeley.edu
510-644-4193
Thomas Farber
Senior LecturerWheeler Hall, room 476
3:00-3:30 and 6:30-8 Tues, 2017
tfar@berkeley.edu
510-644-4193
Professional Statement
Besides my books—short fiction, novels, creative nonfiction, the epigrammatic, and screenplays—I'm Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of El Leon Literary Arts, a nonprofit press (www.elleonliteraryarts.org) with 33 titles thus far, two by former students in this department.
Visit www.thomasfarber.org.
Specialties
Books
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Brief Nudity Philip Larkin wrote of the moment in life when our "innate assumptions" and daily habits "Suddenly harden into all we've got." This beautifully written memoir dwells in that moment, its call to self-judgment, its unexpected openness to possibility. Brief Nudity will please and instruct all who are starting to think about their own aging. --Alan Williamson, author of Almost a Girl: Male Writers an.... | |
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A Lover's Quarrel: On Writing and the Writing Life Collecting Thomas Farber's nonfiction on writing and the writing life, A Lover's Quarrel contains this gifted author's meditation on his vocation. Anatomist, ironist, and moralist, Farber achieves effects of luminous integrity with deceptively simple means. A gift to writers who seek to understand what informs and haunts their métier, A Lover's Quarrel is also for any readers whose lives have bee.... | |
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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 koans..... | |
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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. Here and Gone is brief, elegant and deeply moving. Intellectually omnivorous and agile, it is also as expansive, funny and full of life as only a book .... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Here and Gone (October, 2015)
The End of My Wits (2013)
Brief Nudity (2009)
Akule (with photographer Wayne Levin, 2010)
Current Research
Writing memoir, the epigrammatic, nonfiction about ocean and South Pacific islands, and about salsa--Cuban music and dance.
Recent English Courses Taught
Spring, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 243N/1 | Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
Spring, 2015
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 143N/1 | Prose Nonfiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467
