"Biographical information": p. 233-240.

Verses on the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley -- I become a student / Lincoln Steffens -- The English courses of the University of California / Frank Norris -- It is good to be here / Benjamin Ide Wheeler -- The Berkeley heroine / John F. Boyd -- The proud dig and the lazy student / James Hopper -- From Martin Eden / Jack London -- Walks about Berkeley / Cornelius Beach Bradley -- A house in Berkeley / Henry F. May -- Berkeley in the thirties / John Kenneth Galbraith -- From A jar of dreams / Yoshiko Uchida -- From Torchlight to Valhalla / Gale Wilhelm -- Berkeley 1947 / Thomas Parkinson -- From The year of the oath / George R. Stewart -- To make a summer / Josephine Miles -- Berkeley / Simone de Beauvoir -- La japonesa / Raquel Scherr -- From Full house / Shelley Singer -- A poem slow beginning / Robert Duncan -- Berkeley in time of plague / Jack Spicer -- From The dharma bums / Jack Kerouac -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- There is / Louis Simpson -- Raw material / Suzanne Lipsett -- On Cedar Street / Susan Griffin -- From The crying of lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon -- From Seize the time / Bobby Seale -- From Ella Price's journal / Dorothy Bryant -- The compleat werewolf / Anthony Boucher -- From Berkeley beat : tales from a private investigator / Glenn Myles -- The city is so beautiful from the roof / Dale Pendell -- From The last days of Louisiana Red / Ishmael Reed -- From Changing places / David Lodge -- Adhesive : for Earlene / Robert Hass -- The Bancroft way / C.L. Babcock -- The evangelical emissary / Czeslaw Milosz -- The robbie's dance ; Herrick Hospital, fifth floor / Al Young -- From The transmigration of Timothy Archer / Philip K. Dick -- April 17-22 81 / Larry Eigner -- Last breath / Laura Chester -- From Movement / Valerie Miner -- Berkeley explained / Alice Kahn -- From Tripmaster monkey / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Fuchsia ; Flatlands backyard infrastructure / John Oliver Simon -- Several errands / Brenda Hillman -- A Berkeley life / Janice Gould -- For Moe who died / Julia Vinograd.