Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan met as doctoral students in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric department. The friends became writing partners, collaborating on stories as they lived through the pandemic. The collaboration culminated in the publication of their 2025 memoir The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once.

Television writer and creator Sanjay Shah '99 discusses the realities of entertainment writing, from breaking into the industry to running a writers' room, offering advice to students.

Prominent Russian writer Victor Erofeev offers a provocative exploration of the “new barbarism” of the 21st century, in which power eclipses justice.

Visionary computer scientist and author Jaron Lanier is known for his critical perspective on the digital world. He discusses the impact of A.I. on writing and the intellectual skills that inform it.