Fall 2005: Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan BWAW Flyer

Flyer featuring UC Berkeley Professor Michael Pollan in a red sweater beside apples, promoting his Oct 26, 2005 Berkeley Writers @ Work event at Morrison Library about his journalism and books on food and nature.
Job title: 
Professor, Knight Professor of Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism
Publications & Presentations: 
  • The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Random House, 2001)
  • A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder (Dell, 1998)
  • Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (Dell, 1991)
  • "Our National Eating Disorder." The New York Times Magazine Oct 17, 2004 p74 col 01.
  • "Back to the Heart of Organics: 'Poison Free' Is Food, but Is It Good Enough?" Utne: A Different Read on Life Sept-Oct 2004 i125: 92(2).
  • "A Flood of US Corn Rips at the Heart of Mexico's Farms: The Effect of Free Trade in Corn Is the Decimation of the Farming Communities South of the Mexican Border." The Ecologist June 2004 v34 i5 p6(2).
  • "An American Transplant." The New York Times Magazine May 16, 2004 p72 col 01.
    "Cattle Futures: Did You Know 'They' Feed Chicken Manure to Cattle?" Mother Earth News April-May 2004 i203 p24(2).
  • "Cattle Futures?" The New York Times Magazine Jan 11, 2004 p11(L) col 03.
  • "The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity." The New York Times Magazine Oct 12, 2003 p41 col 03.
  • "The Futures of Food." The New York Times Magazine May 4, 2003 p63 col 01.
  • "Cruising on the Ark of Taste: By Pursuing the Politics of Pleasure, the Slow Food Movement Hopes to Save Rare Species and Delectables--and Give the Considered Life a Second Chance." Mother Jones May-June 2003 v28 i3 p74(5).
  • "You Want Fries with That? From a Business Perspective, the Fattening of America May Have Been a Necessity." The New York Times Book Review Jan 12, 2003 v108 i2 p6(1).
  • "When a Crop Becomes King." The New York Times July 19, 2002 s0 pA21(N) col 1.
  • "Michael J. Fox's Nuptials in Hell!" With Michael J. Fox. Esquire June 1989 v111 n6 p137(10).
  • "Why Mow? The Case against Lawns." The New York Times Magazine May 28, 1989 v138 p22 col 1.
  • "Gardening Means War." The New York Times Magazine June 19, 1988 v137 p24 col 1.
  • "Cultivating Virtue." Organic Gardening Oct 1987 v34 n10 p95(2).
  • "Cultivating Virtue: Compost and Its Moral Imperatives." Harper's Magazine May 1987 v274 p66(4).
  • "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media." The New York Times Book Review April 6, 1986 v91 p26 col 4.
  • "Keeping Television Regulated." The New York Times Dec 22, 1981 v131 p27(N) pA19(LC) col 1.
Role: 
Berkeley Writers at Work Speakers

Michael Pollan Interview

Berkeley Writers at Work with Michael Pollan