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The Literature of California, Volume 1
Author: Jack Hicks
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-12-05
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 0520222121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text is the first volume of a comprehensive anthology of Californian literature. It is divided into four parts and contains material ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American dream.
My California
Author: Donna Wares
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781883318437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →My California: Journeys by Great Writersis a collaboration between Angel City Press and CaliforniaAuthors.com. All publishing proceeds benefit the California Arts Council, an agency which was forced to suspend school writing, arts education programs and other grants in 2003 because of state budget cutbacks. Since its publication, more than $100,000 from sale of this book has been donated to literary programs in California schools. To make theproject possible, all of the writers donated their work. Malloy Incorporated generously donated the first printing of the book. The CaliforniaAuthors.com editor and creative director and the team at Angel City Press--including the sales manager and representatives who work with Angel City Press--are also contributing their services and talents. In addition, world-renown artist David Hockney and the J. Paul Getty Museum have contributed use of Hockney's "Pearblossom Hwy (11-18th April 1986--second version)" on the cover. Contributed essays include: * Introduction -- Pico Iyer * The Big Valley -- Mark Arax * Transients in Paradise -- Aimee Liu * Showing Off the Owens -- T. Jefferson Parker * The Distant Cataract About Which We Do Not Speak -- Mary Mackey * Ode to CalTrans -- Héctor Tobar * Montalvo, Myths and Dreams of Home -- Thomas Steinbeck * The Last Little Beach Town -- Edward Humes * Surfacing -- Matt Warshaw * Bienvenidos a Newport Beach -- Firoozeh Dumas * Cotton Candy Mirrors -- devorah major * Berkeley -- Michael Chabon * California Honky-tonk -- Kathi Kamen Goldmark * 909 -- Percival Everett * The Line -- Rubén Martínez * Flirting with Urbanismo -- Patt Morrison * Waters of Tranquility -- Carolyn See * An Ordinary Place -- D.J. Waldie * Almost Home -- Gerald Haslam * My Little Saigon -- Anh Do * The Nicest Person in San Francisco -- Derek M. Powazek * The Un-California -- Daniel Weintraub * Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin -- Deanne Stillman * How Many Angels -- David Kipen * Centered -- Veronique de Turenne * Returning After Fire -- Chryss Yost * On Being a California Poet -- Dana Gioia
The Story of the Files
Author: Ella Sterling Mighels
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781022486034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating book provides a lively and engaging review of California writers and literature, from the early Spanish explorers to the modern day. Mighels combines historical context with literary analysis to create a unique and informative perspective on the culture and creativity of California. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
California Classics
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
Publisher: Ward Ritchie Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays on writers and their writings about or set in California; fiction, history, geology, biography, criticism.
A Literary History of Southern California
Author: Franklin Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0520347803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
The Story of the Files
Author: Ella Sterling Mighels
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of California writers, with extensive sections on Harte, Clemens, Miller, Bierce and the local periodicals and publishers. A considerable amount of the text is dedicated to women writers of California and the Women's Press Association
The Story of Californi
Author: May McNeer
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781258519582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A History Of California, Highlighting The Cities Of San Francisco And Los Angeles.
A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs
Where I Was From
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0307787958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Where I Was From, in Didion’s words, “represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about California, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely.” The book is a haunting narrative of how her own family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001; of how the wagon-train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue. In Where I Was From, Didion turns what John Leonard has called “her sonar ear, her radar eye” onto her own work, as well as that of such California writers as Frank Norris and Jack London and Henry George, to examine how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know today–a state mortgaged first to the railroad, then to the aerospace industry, and overwhelmingly to the federal government, a dependent colony of those political and corporate owners who fly in for the annual encampment of the Bohemian Club. Here is the one writer we always want to read on California showing us the startling contradictions in its–and in America’s–core values. Joan Didion’s unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers. From the Hardcover edition.
