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Malcolm Margolin: Bay Area Book Legend (EVT 202)
We invite you to spend an evening with Malcolm Margolin, celebrated publisher of Heyday Books, beloved storyteller, writer, walker, seer, and exuberant celebrator of the Bay Area’s natural and cultural wonders. There is nobody like Margolin. Some have compared him to Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, some to a wise rabbi with a good sense of humor. California State Historian and author Kevin Starr calls him "hierophantic . . . manifesting sacred power, a power larger than life, a savant." This would probably embarrass Margolin ("there isn't a pompous bone in his body" according to Starr); but everybody in the world of books knows he's unique—"one of the great polymaths," according to Paul Yamasaki, buyer at City Lights Book Store in San Francisco.
Malcolm Margolin founded Heyday Books in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed East Bay Out, a quirky, personal, affectionate guide to the natural history of the hills and shore around Berkeley and Oakland. He followed this with The Ohlone Way, which has gone through sixteen printings. But it was Heyday's publication in 1987 of News From Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to Indian communities of California, that forged bonds that Margolin calls "one of the great inexplicable joys of my life."
Jim Quay, executive director of the California Council of the Humanities, says of Heyday Books: "Malcolm has created an enterprise that's really built around ideas and values. And they came first." And the publishing house is an expression of Malcolm's spirit: "You just soak up the energy at Heyday," says Stephen Becker, former executive director of the California Historical Society. "You can't be around Malcolm and not get just over the top, invigorated with the idea of building a book."
Join us for an evening of stories, reflections, and speculations on books, writing, California history, and Bay Area culture, and you will know why the audience stood on their chairs and cheered when Margolin was awarded the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association in 1995. For more information on Malcolm Margolin and Heyday Books, visit http://www.heydaybooks.com.
Thursday, May 15
7:30 pm
Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education
FREE; no registration required
Open to the public
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Course Details
Thursday
7:30 pm
May 15
Free
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