CALIFORNIA

READER

FALL 2011

CALIFORNIA READER MAGAZINE

FALL 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Notes………………………………………………………………….....2

When Libraries Were a Thing of Beauty: Margaret Carnegie Library,

Mills College, Oakland………………………………………………………….3

Poetry: California’s Laureates…………………………………………………..6

California Classic – Zane Grey…………………………………………………10

Events……………………………………………………………………….…….11

Author Sightings…………………………………………………………..…….12

New Reads………………………………………………………………….……14

Our Famous Ex-Californians……………………………………………….….20

California Classic – Jackson Gregory…………………………………………21

Six Scary Reads for Halloween………………………………………………..22

Kindle Affairs & Stuff………………………………..…………………….…...24

National and International Book Fairs………………………………….……26

California Classic: Bret Harte……………………………………………….…28

Editor’s Recommendations……………………………………………………29

Afterword………………………………………………………………………..32

Cover illustration: Henri Lebasque , 1865-1937) A Woman Reading

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EDITOR’S NOTES… Welcome to California Reader magazine. California Reader is a multi-format quarterly published magazine designed to be new school and old school. It is based on the style of the old school “coffe-table glossy magazines” popular back in the day; not to be read at one sitting, but returned to at leisure while relaxing. It is also new school in that it is a cyber publication designed to be accessed in multiple formats. You can read it online or offline on your PC or MacIntosh computer. You can download the entire magazine as a PDF document and read it on your computer monitor or print out a hardcopy. You can also download the PDF and then – through a USB connection – simply drag and drop the magazine into your Kindle or E-Reader device. With California Reader on your Kindle, for example, it can go where you go and you can read it at the park, your local coffee shop, on your lunch break, anywhere, anytime. You can even share it with friends. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can easily transfer California Reader as a PDF to your laptop or thumbdrive and still take it with you. You can read the entire magazine at one sitting, but that’s not what’s designed for. Instead, it’s set up so that you can read a little and then return again and again for other sections and articles; so you can check back at another time for those events that you want to attend, to enjoy at your leisure. There are those who say the newspaper and magazine are a thing of the past. At California Reader, we believe these formats are simply evolving to suit the technology and schedules of the modern literate reader. For the hardcore hardcopy reader, there’s the printout; for the more mobile reader, there’s the laptop and Kindle; for the desktop fans, there’s the online version and the PC/Mac downloaded PDF. We hope you enjoy California Reader magazine. You may contact us by email at mailto:californiareadermagazine@yahoo.com Thank you for joining us.

William S Dean

Editor-Publisher

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When Libraries Were a Thing of Beauty: Margaret Carnegie Library

Margaret Carnegie Library, Mills College, Oakland circa 1949

The Mills College library, named in honor of Andrew Carnegie's daughter, is the only California

Carnegie library designed by noted Bay Area architect Julia Morgan. The Spanish Colonial Revival

building is located on the Oval near El Campanil.

Andrew Carnegie funded only two academic libraries in California; the other is at Pomona College,

in Claremont. Mills College received $20,000 in 1905. Two years earlier, Julia Morgan had designed

the Mills oval and campanile, establishing a Mission style.

Earthquakes have figured strongly in the library's history. In fact, its original dedication date had to

be postponed because of the great 1906 quake which devastated San Francisco. Decades later when

the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Carnegie, the library collection had fortunately just

been moved to a larger and more modern building nearby.

Founded in 1852 as the Young Ladies’ Seminary in Benicia, California, Mills College has a rich

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history as a leader in women’s education. Mills was founded two years after California was admitted

to statehood and the same year the city of Oakland was established. Wealthy miners, farmers, and

merchants wanted to further educate their daughters without sending them on the then arduous

journey to the East Coast schools.

First called The Young Ladies’ Seminary, Mills College for Women was established by nine citizens in

what became the state capital, and it gained a strong reputation under the direction of Oberlin

graduate Mary Atkins. With a vision of equal education and opportunity for women, Cyrus and

Susan Mills bought the Seminary in 1865 for $5,000 and renamed it Mills College. It was moved from

the original location in 1871 to the Mills135-acre oasis. At that time, Oakland had grown into a

bustling West Coast city of some 10,000 residents. Mills -- chartered in 1885 -- is now the oldest

women’s college west of the Rockies.

Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957)

A native daughter, born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, Julia Morgan -- architect for the

Margaret Carnegie Library -- designed over seven-hundred buildings in California.

Morgan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil

engineering. Inspired by her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, she headed to Paris to apply to

the famous Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Denied at first because the school was not accepting women, and a second time because she failed

the entrance exam, after two years she finally passed the entrance exams in the architecture program,

and became the first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture from the school in Paris.

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Returning to San Francisco, Morgan gained employment with architect John Galen Howard and did

work on several buildings for the University of California Berkeley campus, most notably providing

the decorative elements for the Hearst Mining Building, and providing designs for the Hearst Greek

Theatre.

In 1904, she opened her own office in San Francisco. One of her earliest works was the North Star

House in Grass Valley, commissioned in 1906 by mining engineer Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife,

author and illustrator, Mary Hallock Foote. For Morgan, the 1906 earthquake provided her with

numerous re-building commissions, due primarily to her then rare knowledge of earthquake-

resistant, reinforced concrete construction.

Through her work at Berkeley, Morgan became acquainted with its patroness, Phoebe Apperson

Hearst, mother of newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst. It was this connection which

brought Morgan to her most famous architectural work – Hearst Castle beginning in 1919.

Throughout a long and distinguished career, Julia Morgan left an imposing legacy of buildings in

California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Julia Morgan is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery

in the hills of Oakland which she was raised.

Governor Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Julia Morgan into the California

Hall of Fame at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts, on December 15, 2008.

The Library at Hearst Castle, San Simeon

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POETRY – CALIFORNIA’S POET LAUREATES

Carol Muske-Dukes, current California Poet Laureate

An Octave Above Thunder

... reverberation

Of thunder of spring over distant mountains

He who was living is now dead

We who were living are now dying

With a little patience.

--T. S. Eliot,

"What the Thunder Said"

She began as we huddled, six of us,

in the cellar, raising her voice above

those towering syllables...

Never mind she cried when storm candles

flickered, glass shattered upstairs.

Reciting as if on horseback,

she whipped the meter,

trampling rhyme, reining in the reins

of the air with her left hand as she

stood, the washing machine behind her

stunned on its haunches, not spinning.

She spun the lines around each other,

her gaze fixed. I knew she'd silenced

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a cacophony of distractions in her head,

to summon what she owned, rote-bright:

Of man's first disobedience,

and the fruit...

of the flower in a crannied wall

and one clear call...

for the child who'd risen before school assemblies:

eerie Dakota rumble that rolled yet never brought

rain breaking over the podium. Her voice rose,

an octave above thunder:

When I consider how my light is spent--

I thought of her light, poured willy-nilly.

in this dark world and wide: half-blind, blind,

a widening distraction Getting and spending

we lay waste our powers...Different poem, a trick!

Her eyes singled me out as the wind slowed.

Then, reflective, I'd rather be / a Pagan

sucked in a creed outworn / than a dullard

with nothing by heart.

It was midsummer, Minnesota. In the sky,

the Blind Poet blew sideways, his cape spilling

rain. They also serve! she sang, hailing

closure

as I stopped hearing her. I did not want to

stand and wait. I loathed nothing so much

as the forbearance now in her voice,

insisting that Beauty was at hand,

but not credible. I considered

how we twisted into ourselves to live.

When the storm stopped, I sat still,

listening.

Here were the words of the Blind Poet—

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crumpled like wash for the line, to be

dried, pressed flat. Upstairs, someone called

my name. What sense would it ever

make to them, the unread world, the getters and spenders,

if they could not hear what I heard,

not feel what I felt

nothing ruined poetry, a voice revived it,

extremity.

INA D. COOLBRITH – CALIFORNIA’S FIRST POET LAUREATE

Born Josephine Donna Smith, oldest daughter of Don Carlos and Agnes Coolbrith Smith, in Nauvoo,

Illinois, March 10, 1842, she entered California through the

Beckwourth Pass in a covered wagon train in 1852. Her first

poems were published in the Los Angeles Times in 1854. After a

brief and tragic marriage at 17, and the death of her child, she

moved to San Francisco in 1862 adopting a new name Ina and

her mother’s maiden surname Coolbrith. Arriving with a

reputation as a poet, she soon began writing for The Golden Era

and The Californian, forming intimate friendships with Bret

Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Mark Twain, among

others. She worked as a journalist on the Overland Monthly.

Later she was librarian of the Mechanics Institute Library and

the Bohemian Club library, and was the first librarian of the

Oakland Public Library. She lost her San Francisco home and all

her possessions in the earthquake and fire of 1906. Through the

generosity of the best known California writers of the day,

another home was built on Russian Hill, where she lived until

the infirmities of age forced her to share the home of her niece in Berkeley until her death in 1923.

Bohemia

No lurking shadows here appear;

The weaving spider comes not here;

Here, if the solemn Owl doth sit,

‘Tis but above the tapers lit,

To blink at wisdom’s shinning wit.

The skies are blue, the winds are fair,

Nor place nor space for tyrant care

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Within the bounds, Bohemia.

Lo! gold is much, but ‘tis not all-

Too oft a lure the soul to thrall;

The subtle brain, the skilled hand,

Of melody the magic wand,

The silent songs the poets sing,

Which through the world take voice and wing,

The sparkling jest, the laughing lip,

The royal, genial fellowship-

Of these thy wealth, Bohemia.

O children of the Cloudless Clime!

Where’er the changing sands of time

Have borne ye, lo! from one and all

The voices answer, voices call!

From Seen, and from the Unseen Land,

Where, unforgot, dear comrades stand,

Lift loyal heart and loyal hand,

With love of thee, Bohemia.

* Written for the Bohemian Club, 1893.

BEYOND BAROQUE

681 Venice Blvd, Venice

(in the former City Hall)

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading

independent Literary/Arts Centers and public spaces

dedicated to literary and cultural production, contact,

interaction, and community building. Founded in 1968, it is

based in the Old Town Hall in Venice, California, near the

Pacific Ocean. It offers a program of readings, new music, free

workshops, publishing, bookstore, archiving, and education.

(SEE EVENTS)

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CALIFORNIA CLASSIC – ZANE GREY

From Call of the Canyon

Spring might have been fresh and keen in the air, but it had not yet

brought much green to the brown earth or to the trees. The cotton-

woods showed a light feathery verdure. The long grass was a bleached

white, and low down close to the sod fresh tiny green blades showed.

The great fern leaves were sear and ragged, and they rustled in the

breeze. Small gray sheath-barked trees with clumpy foliage and snags of

dead branches, Glenn called cedars; and, grotesque as these were,

Carley rather liked them. They were approachable, not majestic and

lofty like the pines, and they smelled sweetly wild, and best of all they

afforded some protection from the bitter wind. Carley rested better than

she walked. The huge sections of red rock that had tumbled from above

also interested Carley, especially when the sun happened to come out

for a few moments and brought out their color. She enjoyed walking on the fallen pines, with Glenn below,

keeping pace with her and holding her hand. Carley looked in vain for flowers and birds. The only living things

she saw were rainbow trout that Glenn pointed out to her in the beautiful clear pools. The way the great gray

boulders trooped down to the brook as if they were cattle going to drink; the dark caverns under the shelving

cliffs, where the water murmured with such hollow mockery; the low spear-pointed gray plants, resembling

century plants, and which Glenn called mescal cactus, each with its single straight dead stalk standing on high

with fluted head; the narrow gorges, perpendicularly walled in red, where the constricted brook plunged in

amber and white cascades over fall after fall, tumbling, rushing, singing its water melody—these all held

singular appeal for Carley as aspects of the wild land, fascinating for the moment, symbolic of the lonely red

man and his forbears, and by their raw contrast making more necessary and desirable and elevating the

comforts and conventions of civilization.

Zane Grey Estate, 396 E. Mariposa Street, Altadena

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EVENTS

October

22 The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association's SCIBA Authors

Feast and Trade Show. Long Beach, Calif. This year's authors feast and trade show will

be held at the Hilton Long Beach Hotel and will include, for the first time, a dessert and

authors reception after the authors feast.

27 – 29 The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association's NCIBA Trade

Show. Oakland, Calif. This year's show will be held at the Oakland Convention

Center/City Center Marriott.

November

1 Tuesday 7:00 PM

Night and the City - L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction and Film:

Noir Genius: Weldon Kees and Jorge Luis Borge

Presented by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts

Center. With Jamie Fitzgerald, Dana Gioia, Lou Matthews, Robert Mezey, and

Mariano Zaro.

**NOTE: This event will be held at Libros Schmibros Used Bookshop and Lending

Library • 2000 East 1st Street in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. Call (323) 302-9408 for

more information. FREE admission

5 Saturday 4:00 PM

Night and the City - L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction and Film::

Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem

West Coast debut of new Everyman’s Library poetry anthology from Knopf.

Presented by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts

Center. 681 Venice Blvd Venice,

Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem, is a spine-tingling collection of

terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims

who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to

Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit

are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-

boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound

poetic musings on murder. Suzanne Lummis, Charles Harper Webb,, and Kurt

Brown will present work by Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie

Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, Tony Barnstone, and

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Cornelius Eady, which are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work

is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.

Special admission policy: Free for members, $8 for non-members, and $5 for

students

11-14 2011 California Library Association and California School Library Association

Annual Conference & Exposition. Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena

AUTHOR SIGHTINGS

October

13 Justin Torres signing We the Animals, Alexander Book Co 50 2nd Street.

San Francisco

22 Robert Kipniss signs Robert Kipniss: A Working Artist’s Life, Weinstein Gallery,

383 Geary Street. San Francisco

November

5 Luis J. Rodrigue book signing for "It Calls You Back" 4 to 6 pm Libreria Martinez,

216 North Broadway, Santa Ana

Scott Pasfield signing Gay in America, 4:00 PM, The Grove at Farmers Market,

189 Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles

6 Catherine Coulter, Authors' talk and book signing, Solano County Library

Foundation Authors Luncheon. 10:30am to 3pm The Clubhouse at Rancho Solano,

Fairfield

12 Julie Newmar, Catwoman on "Batman", signing copies of The Conscious Catwoman

Explains Life on Earth 5:00 PM at Vroman's Bookstore - East Colorado Blvd. Pasadena.

Gregory Maguire signing Out of Oz, , Booksmith 1644 Haight Street, San

Francisco,

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13 Gregory Maguire, signing Out of Oz, Barnes and Noble, The Grove, 401 Newport

Center Fashion Island Mall Newport Beach

16 Alison Arngrim, star of "Little House on the Prairie", signing copies of

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch at the Santa Monica Public Library - Santa Monica Blvd.

Santa Monica.

17 Bill Maher, comedian and talk show host, signing copies of The New New Rules

7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Grove Drive. Los Angeles

19 Catherine C. Robbins All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) 1:30 PM

San Diego Independent Scholars University of California San Diego Chancellor's

Complex Room 111A La Jolla.

28 Michael Connelly signs The Drop, 700 PM, The Grove at Farmers Market

189 Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles

29 Gisela Rahmeyer signing Surviving on Dreams Mrs. Figs Bookworm, 93 East

Daily Drive, Camarillo.

December

1 Hillary Duff signing Elixir, Borders, 100 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale

4 Max and Linda Ciampoli authors of Churchill’s Secret Agent

Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel & Pomona Valleys Beth Shalom of

Whittier 14564 Hawes Street, Whittier. Brunch: 10 a.m./Presentation at 10:30 a.m.

Hilary Duff book signing Michael Connelly book signing

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NEW READS

The California Trail

Ralph Compton’s first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail,

was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer

Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown

Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County,

Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a

songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing

westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1998.

Excerpt from The California Trail:

“The problem does not lie in California, or at the end of any trail, but within Gil

himself. Can you not see what is happening between him and Rosa?”

He kicked his chair back and got up, his palms flat on the table, just looking at her. His nostrils flared and his

brown eyes had gone cold.

“Rosa can’t be more than twelve,” he said. “Thirteen at the most. Are you sayin’ that Gil—”

“I did not accuse Gil of anything,” she said. “While you think of Rosa as a child, she thinks of herself as a

woman, and it is in that light that I see her. So does Dorinda. Rosa has the resources and the yearnings of a

woman. A child of twelve, perhaps thirteen? I think not.”

He sat down, allowing his temper to subside before he spoke. “So the trail drive to the goldfields ain’t just the

money,” he said. “Gil’s leavin’ a situation here that he ain’t sure he can handle. But a man can’t run forever.

What’s going to keep this thing from gettin’ back in the saddle and sinkin’ the gut hooks in him again, when he

returns?”

“A wife perhaps,” said Angelina.

MINING CALIFORNIA

Andrew C. Isenberg

Andrew C. Isenberg is a professor of history at Temple University. He is

the author of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–

1920 and is a former fellow of the Huntington Library and the Shelby

Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies.

Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California.

With little available capital or labor, here’s how: high-pressure water

cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but

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let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the

amount of earth

moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California’s

rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers

overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land

poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable

consequences reduced California’s forests and grasslands.

Not since William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis has a historian so

skillfully applied John Muir’s insight—“When we try to pick out

anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the

universe”—to the telling of the history of the American West.

Rebels in Paradise The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Los Angeles, 1960: There was no modern art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly

what a number of daring young artists liked about it, among them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney,

Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of

seeing, making, and marketing art fueled their creativity, which in turn inspired the city. Today Los

Angeles has four museums dedicated to contemporary art, around one hundred galleries, and

thousands of artists. Here, at last, is the book that tells the saga of how the scene came into being,

why a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations, including

Andy Warhol's first exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank Gehry's mind-bending

architecture, Rudi Gernreich's topless bathing suit, Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, even the Beach Boys,

the Byrds, the Doors, and other purveyors of a California style.

Love & War in California

Oakley Hall

The award-winning author Oakley Hall begins his newest work in 1940s San Diego, where his

endearing, wide-eyed narrator must define his identity in terms of self,

family, and World War II. As his classmates disappear into the war one by

one, he becomes obsessed with abuses of power and embroiled with the

charming, dangerous Errol Flynn; with the Red Baiting of the American

Legion; with the House Un-American Activities Committee; and with the

Japanese interment at Manzanar. Nevertheless, Payton, too, must go to the

war, where he is a part of the invasion of Europe and that proving of the

American soldier: the Battle of the Bulge. After war’s end and time in New

York, he returns to California as a writer and a seeker, whose old, long-lost

love rises from the ashes to show him who he really is.

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Excerpt from Love & War in California:

“Bonny lived in Mission Hills, not far from where I had lived before the Depression, in a white stucco and red

tile Spanish-style house like my family’s onetime house, but two stories. Inside were the thick, arched doorways

out of my memory, the tan walls with broad plasterer’s swirls. Bonny showed me into the living room, where

Dr. Bonington sat by the fireplace with a kerosene heater and the shucked peels of an orange in an ashtray on

the taboret beside his chair. He got up to shake my hand, a tall man with round shoulders.

“This is Payton Daltrey, Daddy,” Bonny said. She wore a white formal, and she’d pinned the gardenia I’d brought into her hair.

Towers of Gold How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman

Created California

Frances Dinkelspiel

Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with

very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By

the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into a

modern metropolis. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history,

the early days of California are seen through the life of a man who

started out as a simple store owner to become California's premier

money-man of the late 19th and early 20th century. Growing up as a

young immigrant, Hellman learned the use of "capital, founding LA's

Farmers and Merchants Bank and transforming Wells Fargo into one of

the West's biggest financial institutions. He invested money with

Henry Huntington to build trolley lines, lent Edward Doheney the funds that led him to discover

California's huge oil reserves, and assisted Harrison Gary Otis in buying the Los Angeles

Times. Hellman led the building of Los Angeles' first synagogue, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple,

helped start the University of Southern California and served as Regent of the University of

California. His influence, however, was not limited to Los Angeles. After San Francisco's devastating

1906 earthquake and fire, he calmed the financial markets there in order to help that great city rise

from the ashes.

Francis Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist and the great-great granddaughter of Isaias

Hellman.

Sketch of Hellman store Isaias Hellman

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Laurel Canyon The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary

Neighborhood

Michael Walker

In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians

colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los

Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that

conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the

Rolling Stones had before them. During the canyon’s golden era, the

musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits,

from "California Dreamin’" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" selling tens of

millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel

Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this

unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boom’s leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell;

Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the

Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the

world.

Pacific Coast Highway Traveler's Guide

Tom Snyder

Before gridlocked freeways and jumbo jets, the West Coast was a region of

friendly towns and secluded coves, with 1,800 miles of winding and scenic

roadway. Join Tom Snyder for another two-land adventure--from California's

strands and the tumbled shoreline of Oregon, through Washington's lush rain

forests. Detailed directions make traveling either up or down the coast easy.

Explore more than 390 special places, like Port Townsend, where Snow Falling on

Cedars and An Officer and a Gentleman were filmed. Discover over 100

restaurants and romantic hideaways, from pizza parlors to a cozy inn with a wine

list of 2,000 vintages. Find near-secret beaches, where you can still park free right

along the old highway and wade straight into the ocean.

Thelma Todd’s Café, Pacific Coast Highway, c. 1934

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John Muir Magnificent Tramp - American Heroes (Volume 4 of 6)

Rod Miller

An important protector of the American wilderness, John Muir emigrated from

Scotland to the United States in 1849 and became a widely sought expert in

botany, glaciers, and forestry. He also gained renown during his life as an

explorer, naturalist, and conservationist. He is best known for his long association

with the Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.

Constantly at odds with powerful political and financial interests, he was

instrumental in creating federal protection for forests as well as the

establishment and expansion of national parks. The wars he waged are still

being fought and the threats to the environment he encountered are as real

today as they were in his time. Muir’s ideas are still relevant to the lives of Americans. Muir is

remembered as the founder of the Sierra Club and the father of America’s conservation movement.

John Muir Lodge, 86728 California 180, Miramonte

The Barbarian Nurseries A Novel

Héctor Tobar

With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood

metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of

Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern

California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes,

languages, dreams, and ambitions.

Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household—one of

three Mexican employees in a Spanish-style house with lovely views of the

Pacific. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but

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the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing—unless you count Scott

Torres, though you’d never suspect he was half Mexican but for his last name and an old family

photo with central L.A. in the background. The financial pressure is causing the kind of fights that

even Araceli knows the children shouldn’t hear, and then one morning, Araceli wakes to an empty

house—except for the two Torres-Thompson boys, little aliens she’s never had to interact with before.

Their parents are unreachable, and the only family member she knows of is Señor Torres, the subject

of that old family photo. So she does the only thing she can think of and heads to the bus stop to seek

out their grandfather.

With a precise eye for telling details and an charming blend of characters, Tobar calls on his

experience—as a novelist, a father, a journalist, a son of Guatemalan immigrants, and a native

Angeleno—to deliver a novel as alive as the city itself.

Excerpt:

Neither of her bosses informed Araceli beforehand of the momentous news that she would be the last Mexican

working in this house. Araceli had two bosses, whose surnames were hyphenated into an odd, bilingual

concoction: Torres-Thompson. Oddly, la señora Maureen never called herself "Mrs. Torres," though she and el

señor Scott were indeed married, as Araceli had discerned on her first day on the job from the wedding pictures

in the living room and the identical gold bands on their fingers. Araceli was not one to ask questions, or to allow

herself to be pulled into conversation or small talk, and her dialogues with her jefes were often austere affairs

dominated by the monosyllabic "Yes," "Sí," and, occasionally, "No." She lived in their home twelve days out of

every fourteen, but was often in the dark when new chapters opened in the Torres-Thompson family saga: for

example, Maureen's pregnancy with the couple's third child, which Araceli found out about only because of her

jefa's repeated vomiting one afternoon.

"Señora, you are sick. I think my enchiladas verdes are too strong for you. ¿Qué no?"

"No, Araceli. It's not the green sauce. I'm going to have a baby. Didn't you know?"

Snitch Jacket

Christopher Goffard

Christopher Goffard is an author and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times.

A Los Angeles native with an English degree from Cornell University, he started at The St.

Petersburg Times in 1998, where he covered cops, city hall, and courts. His work on the Tampa courts

beat gave rise to "The $40 Lawyer," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Since

January 2006, he has been a general assignment reporter at the LA Times, writing about everything

from border warriors and prison gangs to the legacy of Watergate.

He was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team that chronicled the Bell scandal in 2010,

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coverage which also won the newspaper a George Polk Award for local

reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, and the

American Society of News Editors Distinguished Writing Award for Local

Accountability Reporting.

His first book, a literary crime novel called Snitch Jacket, was published by

Random House in the United Kingdom and by Rookery Press in the United

States. It was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel in

2008, has been translated into Italian, French and Norwegian, and is being

developed as a film.

OUR FAMOUS EX-CALIFORNIANS

Because they are better known as resident writers in other places, it’s not surprising that few people

are aware that this famous poet is a native son or that these authors lived here for over a decade. Did

you know?

Robert Frost, poet. Born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874. Frost was eleven years old,

when, after the death of his newspaperman father on May 5, 1885 his mother moved

the remaining family back East to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his paternal

grandfather.

Gertrude Stein, poet, writer, patroness of the Arts. Born in Pennsylvania, February 3,

1874. When Gertrude was three years old, the Steins relocated for business reasons

to Vienna and then Paris. They returned to America in 1878, settling in Oakland,

California, where Stein attended First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland's Sabbath

school. Stein was seventeen years old when she left Oakland to live in Baltimore

with her mother’s family, following the death of her parents.

Eugene O’Neill, playwright. Born in New York City, and strongly associated with the

Greenwich Village crowd, and later with the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts,

nevertheless, O’Neill and his second wife, Carlotta Monterrey, lived many years at

their reclusive Tao House, In Danville, California. Later, in 1944, In 1944, he and

Carlotta moved into a suite of rooms in the Huntington Hotel on San Francisco's Nob

Hill.

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Wallace Stegner, author. Iowa, Saskatchewan, Vermont, and Utah all claim to be

Stegner’s geographical Muse. Throughout the years of WW II, he taught at Harvard

and produced four novels, including Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943). In 1945, he was

offered the directorship of the writing program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, a

position he held for the next twenty-five years.

CALIFORNIA CLASSIC – JACKSON GREGORY

From The Everlasting Whisper, a tale of the California Wilderness

A long time King stood at the mouth of the cave, looking forth upon the newly whitened world. The look of the

thickening sky, the wintry sting of the rushing air, the businesslike way in which the snow swirled and fell

created a condition upon which he had not counted and for which he had no relish. This was more like a mid-

winter blizzard than any storm had any business being so early in the season. For many hours already the

snow had been falling, piling up in the mountain passes; if it kept on at this rate through another day and

night-well, he and Gloria had best be getting out without any loitering.

He looked at his watch; not yet eleven o’clock. Need for haste; the day would be short. Before darkness shut

down he had half a dozen hours, hours for methodical search. Here was one of Gus Ingle’s caves; another, he

knew, was directly below and at the base of the cliffs; the third should be near. It was the third that he was

chiefly interested in. He recalled the words in the old Bible: “We come to the First Caive and then we come to

Caive number three and two!” There lay significance in the order of Ingle’s numerals; first, three, and

two. Two of the caves were for any one to see; before now King had been in both of them. Hence it must be that

Gus Ingle’s treasure lay in the third. That one King must locate. And without too much delay…

Taking his rope with him King made what haste he could going down the cliffs. The sides of the ravine were

littered with dead wood, drift and limbs that had broken off the few battered trees above. He gathered as heavy a

load of dry branches as he could handle, bound them about with his rope, and, fighting his way all the way up,

clambered again to the upper cave…He moved about her, went a dozen paces deeper into the great cavern, and

threw down his wood. Breaking branches into short lengths he quickly got a fire going. The flames spurted up

eagerly, bright and cheery, and threw dancing light among the wavering shadows. He brought the bedding-roll

closer and opened it into a rough-and-ready bed.

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SIX SCARY READS FOR HALLOWEEN

Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons

Carrion Comfort is a good, richly-developed tale of three old friends with

grotesque and far-reaching powers. But friendship only goes so far…then

friends become dreadful enemies who pull in others as their minions to

continue a rivalry that reaches beyond the grave. It is a story of a kind of

immortality achieved by psychic vampires, of mind control, of murder. And

the constant struggle of the living to defeat these more-then-human monsters.

Some will be sacrificed, but will others succeed in the end? And what will be the cost? Their sanity?

Their humanity?

Settle in on these chill Fall nights with a read that will won’t warm your blood but will keep your

mind racing to the next page.

The Damnation Game Clive Barker

This is vintage Clive Barker. The writing is crisp and colorful with grisly

details that send those shivers down your back and scenes that make you

shudder. Barker’s unlikely characters pull you in to a tale that is classic in its

horror and yet unique in both setting and style. Starting in World War II

with a gamble, the story unfolds in surprising ways. The moody ambience

set in current life is all the more impressive by the mundane background of

city life and what lurks deep within its shadows. Do you dare play The

Game when more than life is at stake? Do you have a choice?

They Thirst Robert R. McCammon

If you’re a bit weary of the “sparkling” vampires and the sex-driven creatures

of True Blood, take a walk on the really wild side with Robert M. McCammon’s

classic They Thirst.

These are vampires who serve The Great Plan. Imagine Los Angeles filled with

vampires, from the Hollywood hills to the 401 freeway. Coffin-manufacturing

vampires, biker gang vampires, illegal immigrant vampires, and all serving the

evil designs of a “something else” that resides in the old mansion of a one-time

horror film star. You’ll never look at Los Angeles in the same way once you read

this book.

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Master of Lies Graham Masterton

From the terrifyingly gruesome opening scene to the satisfying conclusion,

Master of Lies will keep your mind humming and your blood running cold. A

follow-up to Masterton’s horrifying novel The Manitou, Master of Lies takes you

on an increasingly bizarre journey into hellish happenings that cause you

wonder, “Will it ever be normal again?”

Necroscope Brian Lumley

What if you were the only living person in the world that could communicate

with the dead as easily as turning on your cellphone? What if it included the

Undead? What if you were recruited by British Intelligence to be a kind of James

Bond for the supernatural? What if an author – Brian Lumley, let’s say – was

able to weave all these “What ifs” into a masterful tale of creepy action and

horror goings-on? Read the novel and see for yourself – preferably on a

moonless night just before Halloween.

Flicker Theodore Roszak

On the surface, Flicker almost doesn’t seem like a terrifying novel – at first. But the

deeper you probe into its complex plot, the more you begin to realize you’re

slowly becoming mired in events that have such wide and deep-ranging effects

that you’ll be very wary of watching films or television ever again. Who’s behind

the screen and what are they making you do, how are they making you live, what

fears and chaos are they spreading…and why?

BONUS READ

Moon Dance S. P. Somtow

Did a ragtag group of European werewolves immigrate to the American West? When Carrie Dupré

travels to the remote town of Winter Eyes to study a famed psychopath, she

uncovers a dark history of violence, culture wars . . . and werewolves. Moon Dance

is a tale of horror and the supernatural alternating between the present of the

1960's and the Old West of the 1880's that explores the complexities of animal

instinct, multiple personality disorder, sexual dominance and the nature of evil.

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KINDLE AFFAIRS & STUFF…

More and more e-readers are becoming the wedge driving up author popularity. What’s topping the

buyer charts for Kindle readers? Are you in the loop or still dragging your techno-feet?

The Mill River Recluse. Darcie Chan. A story of triumph over tragedy, one that reminds us of the

value of friendship and the ability of love to come from the most unexpected of places.

The Affair, Lee Child. A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 New

York Times bestselling author Lee Child, The Affair is the start of the Jack Reacher saga, a thriller that

takes Reacher—and his readers—right to the edge: a lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.

. . . and beyond.

The Abbey, Chris Culver. Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of

handling another death investigation. In another year, he'll be out of the department completely.

That's the plan, at least, until his niece's body is found in the guest home of one of his city's most

wealthy citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn't add up. Against orders, Ash

launches an investigation to find his niece's murderer.

The Help, Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi becomes

interested in the plight of the black ladies' maids that every family has working for them. She writes

their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreaks of working in white families' homes, just

before the Civil Rights revolution.

The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch, Lee Chadeayne. Brilliantly-researched and exciting story of

a formative era of history when witches were hunted and the inquisitors had little belief in their

methods beyond their effect in pacifying superstitious townspeople . Pötzsch, actually descended

from a line of hangmen, delivers a fantastically fast-paced read, rife with details on the social and

power structures in the town as well as dichotomy between university medicine and traditional

remedies.

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins. In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has

collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided

into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected

by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the

subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are

forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch.

What’s on your Kindle?

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Do you sometimes enjoy reading the classics of literature and non-fiction, maybe even sometimes the

somewhat obscure? Not everything turns up on amazon.com. You may not yet have noticed but

Project Gutenberg and, of course, GoogleBooks now have many books available for your Kindle,

too.

Got the NOOK? Our friends over at GoodReads have a listing of new October releases for NOOK

readers.

You can read Kindle books on your Kindle, Kindle DX, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod and BlackBerry.

Whispersync technology syncs your last page read, notes, bookmarks, and highlights across devices,

so you can pick up where you left off across devices.

Want to get your geek-tech e-reader groove on? Check out these links for newly-released

information about the technology that is powering your reads:

E-Ink

Digital Book World The Publishing Community for the 21st Century

ePublishing HQ

Publishers Weekly Online

Book Business Online

Publishing Trends Online

NEWS SNIPPET –

Springer Science+Business Media has started its extensive digitization project, Springer Book

Archives (SBA). The archive will include nearly all books that have been published since the 1840s.

Tthe book archives will contain around 65,000 titles, including unique works by Albert Einstein ,

Niels Bohr , Sir John Eccles , Lise Meitner , Werner Siemens and Rudolf Diesel. The works in the

digital archives will be available on the company’s platform. When this mammoth project is

completed at the end of 2012, Springer will be able to offer more than 100,000 e-Books on

springerlink.com

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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIRS 2011 – 2012

Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

12 - 16 October 2011

Istanbul Book Fair, Istanbul, Turkey

12 - 20 November 2011

Sharjah International Book Fair, Sharjah, UAE

16 - 26 November 2011

www.sharjahbookfair.com

Guadalajara Book Fair, Guadalajara, Mexico

26 November - 4 December 2011

Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), Taipei, Taiwan

1 - 6 February 2012

www.tibe.org.tw

Vilnius International Book Fair / Baltic Book Fair, Vilnius, Lithuania

23 - 26 February 2012

New Delhi World Book Fair, New Delhi, India

25 February - 4 March 2012

Jerusalem International Book Fair, Jerusalem, Israel

February 2012

Dublin Book Festival, Dublin, Ireland

March 2012

Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE

20 - 25 March 2012

Paris Book Fair, Paris, France

16 - 19 March 2012

Bangkok International Book Fair, Bangkok, Thailand

29 March - 8 April 2012

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Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bologna, Italy

27 - 30 March 2012

London Book Fair, London, UK

16 - 18 April 2012

Budapest International Book Festival, Budapest, Hungary

19 - 22 April 2012

Buenos Aires Book Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina

17 April - 7 May 2012

Thessaloniki Book Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece

April 2012

Geneva Book Fair, Geneva, Switzerland

25 - 29 April 2012

Bogota International Book Fair, Bogota, Colombia

18 April - 1 May 2012

Prague International Book Fair, Prague, Czech Republic

17 - 20 May 2012

Warsaw International Book Fair, Warsaw, Poland

10 - 13 May 2012

BookExpo America, New York City, USA

5 - 7 June 2012

Seoul International Book Fair, Seoul, Korea

20 - 24 June 2012

Tokyo International Book Fair, Tokyo, Japan

5 -8 July 2012

Beijing International Book Fair, Beijing, China

29 August - 2 September 2012

Rio de Janeiro International Book Fair, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

September 2012

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Moscow International Book Fair, Moscow, Russia

September 2012

Colombo International Book Fair, Colombo, Sri Lanka

September 2012

Nairobi International Book Fair, Nairobi, Kenya

October 2012

Goteborg Book Fair, Goteborg, Sweden

September 2012

Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

10 - 14 October 2012

CALIFORNIA CLASSIC: BRET HARTE

From A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley

A long volleying shower had just passed down the level landscape, and was followed by a

rolling mist from the warm saturated soil like the smoke of the discharge. Through it she

could see a faint lightening of the hidden sun, again darkening through a sudden onset of

rain, and changing as with her conflicting doubts and resolutions. Thus gazing, she was

vaguely conscious of an addition to the landscape in the shape of a man who was passing

down the road with a pack on his back like the tramping "prospectors" she had often seen

at Heavy Tree Hill. That memory apparently settled her vacillating mind; she determined

she would NOT go to the dance. But as she was turning away from the window a second figure, a horseman,

appeared in another direction by a cross-road, a shorter cut through her domain. This she had no difficulty in

recognizing as one of the strangers who were getting up the dance. She had noticed him at church on the

previous Sunday. As he passed the house he appeared to be gazing at it so earnestly that she drew back from the

window lest she should be seen. And then, for no reason whatever, she changed her mind once more, and

resolved to go to the dance. Gravely announcing this fact to the wife of her superintendent who kept house with

her in her loneliness, she thought nothing more about it. She should go in her mourning, with perhaps the

addition of a white collar and frill.

His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in The Californian, an early literary

journal edited by Charles Henry Webb. In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another

new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in

California. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp", appeared in the magazine's second issue,

propelling Harte to nationwide fame.

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EDITOR’S RECOMMENDATIONS

Black California: A Literary Anthology Edited by Aparajita Nanda

150 years of the California African American experience

Black California is the first comprehensive anthology celebrating black

writing through almost two centuries of Californian history. In a

patchwork quilt pieced from poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and

memoirs, this anthology traces the trajectory of African American

writers. Each piece gives a voice to the resonating rhythms that created

the African American literary tradition in California. These voices

speak of dreams and disasters, of heroic achievements and tragic

failures, of freedom and betrayal, of racial discrimination and

subsequent restoration—all setting the pulse of the black California

experience.

Early works include a letter written by Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California; an excerpt

from mountain man, freed slave, and honorary Crow Indian James

Beckwourth; and a poem written by James Madison Bell and recited to a

public gathering of black people commemorating the death of President

Lincoln. More recent contributions include pieces from beat poet Bob

Kaufman, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, comedian Brian Copeland, and

feminists Lucille Clifton and June Jordan.

Califauna: A Literary Field Guide Edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod

From Native American tales and explorers’ accounts to fiction and poetry

by established and emerging writers, this new anthology is an exploration

of how animals inspire our imagination and move our compassion. Every

piece is written of a different animal, complete with editor field notes. The

book also includes a collection of artwork and a timeline of animal-related milestones in California.

Califauna includes literature by: Mary Austin, Ambrose Bierce, T. C. Boyle, Charles Bukowski, Walter

Van Tilburg Clark, Robert Hass, Helen Hunt Jackson, Robinson Jeffers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack

London, Barry Lopez, David Mas Masumoto, John Muir, Ishmael Reed, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain,

and others.

New California Writing 2011 Edited by Gayle Wattawa

Every piece in New California Writing 2011 was selected to engage and challenge the

reader–to move beyond the stale repetition of the daily news into the realm of

literature that can ignite the imagination and enlarge the vision. Included among

the contributors are well-known writers such as Rebecca Solnit, Mark Arax, Susan

Straight, Mike Davis, William T. Vollmann, and Michael Chabon as well as

emerging voices.

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No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1849-1869

Edited by Ida Rae Egli

First published by Heyday Books in 1992 and now reissued under our

California Legacy series, No Rooms of Their Own has become a standard

reference and a starting point for many studies. More importantly, it remains

one of the few anthologies in which the scope and range of authentic literary

voices of the women of the gold rush era can be heard. This collection—now

repackaged for a contemporary audience—pays homage to the talent and

experiences of these women who built the West.

Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California Edited by Rick

Heide

A celebration, an outcry, a revelation, and a powerful reading

experience, this anthology ranges from naturalism to magical realism,

from lyric poetry to detective fiction, with works by Francisco X.

Alarcón, Isabel Allende, Lorna Dee Cervantes, César Chávez, Francisco

Jiménez, Graciela Limõn, Juan Marichal, Pablo Neruda, Gary Soto, Luis

Valdez, Alma Luz Villanueva, and many others. Under the Fifth Sun

collects stories of love, family, work, exploration, politics, history,

culture, and survival—fiction, poetry, memoirs, commentary, and

drama—covering more than two centuries of Latino presence in

California, from missionaries and soldiers to gold miners, farmworkers,

and political refugees.

The Illuminated Landscape: A Sierra Nevada Anthology Edited by Gary Noy and Rick Heide

The essays, poetry, and stories of The Illuminated Landscape embrace the Sierra Nevada experience:

an ancient creation myth involving an unlikely contest between Hawk and Crow, vignettes of life in

mining camps, a curious deer taking a stroll through Beetle Rock, the solace felt by a family held in an

internment camp. Excerpts from well-known writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain,

Mary Austin, Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Ishmael Reed as well as

original works from local authors reveal how important the Sierra has

become to our cultural psyche as an irreplaceable refuge for our spirits.

“This is a remarkable anthology, taking the reader chronologically from the dawn of

time to environmental issues of today. This book belongs on every bookshelf of the

best-of-the-best of Californiana.”—W. R. Swagerty, Director, John Muir Center,

University of the Pacific

“This anthology looms large on the horizon…”—David Guy, CEO, Yosemite

Association

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The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences

Malcolm Margolin, Editor

The Way We Lived is a rich and varied collection of stories, love songs, chants,

and more from native people around the state. Sometimes poignant, often

humorous, and always fascinating, these pieces show the remarkable

perseverance of native culture and ways in modern times.

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848

Rose Marie Beebe (Author), Robert M. Senkewicz (Author)

When famed historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent Thomas Savage, Henry Cerruti, and Vicente

Perfecto Gómez out to gather the oral histories of the pre-American residents of the new state of

California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, Savage,

Cerruti, and Gómez collected the stories of the women, almost as an afterthought:

these were archived at the University of California; some were never even

translated into English…until now.

From the editors of the highly influential Lands of Promise and Despair, here are

thirteen women’s first-hand accounts from when California was part of Spain and

Mexico. They lived through the gold rush and saw their country change so

drastically, they understood the need to tell the full story of their people and the

place that was California.

Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley

Edited by Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, and Patricia Wakida

From the myths of the Yokuts Indians to stories and poems by famous

contemporary writers, this anthology showcases the best literature of California's

Great Central Valley and provides a rich view of the region's physical and

emotional landscape. With thirty-three added selections and a new foreword.

"Highway 99 is a rich mix of poetry, fiction, and journalism."—Los Angeles Times

"Fascinating stories and poignant memories are bumper to bumper in Highway 99, and anyone with

an interest or an address in California will find it compelling."—San Francisco Chronicle

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AFTERWORD…

“I was here before the land had names. My people came across the sea, across the bridge of land

between two worlds. They spread across the new world, from north to south, some down the edge

of the ocean, some to the mountains, some to the flatlands, some to the desert.

“I was here when we gave names to the land. California and pueblos named for the saints where we

built our missions and where our soldiers lived and died. I was here when cattle and fruit trees and

vines spread across the land from the mountains to the sea.

“I was here with the new Americans who came seeking the hard gold of the hills and rivers and the

soft gold of otter and beaver. I was here when they built their towns of trees and their farms with

sweat.

“I was here when the iron rails came and when the roads were made for automobiles, bringing more

and more people to the land from The East. I was here when they built their schools and banks of

stone and their great cities of concrete and glass.

“I was here in their words on pages and thoughts in minds. I was here in their hearts when they

wept and when they laughed.

“I am always here. I am California…”

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