barry bergman

Barry Bergman reads from a podium

“a vivid debut … a tough-minded meditation on politics, delusion, and survival in Nixon’s America”

California magazine

“If there was hope,
it must lie in the proles.”

—George Orwell, 1984

Get to know me:

an interview with the author, by the author (tough, but fair)

"Just because you’re not a drummer doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep time.”

—Thelonious Monk

Words to live by:

"So it goes.”

—Kurt Vonnegut

A few words from, and about, Proles

(Reading at Book Passage, Corte Madera, California, Nov. 8, 2025)
Video: Liza Gross

Barry Bergman seated at book-signing table

Photo: Lowry McFerrin