California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State - Softcover

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Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Edited by Charles McLeod. A Vacaville rodeo. Hollywood quid pro quo. A verbal altercation at a Buddhist retreat. Nearly starving to death in the farmlands of Clovis. The Santa Anas blowing fire through the SoCal foothills. The lights of oil rigs glowing brightly in the Santa Barbara Channel. Farm worker strikes and Prop 21. Smelting the Lost Coast. Hiking the Mojave. Hells Angels, divorce law and Chez Panisse. The mountains and the beaches. The cities and the desert. In these twenty short stories and sixteen essays, established and emerging writers alike speak to California's myriad joys and juxtapositions.

Contributors are: Joe Aguilar, Andrew Foster Altschul, Will Boast, Teri Carter, Jasmin Darznik, Stephen Elliott, Ernest Finney, Josephine Fitzpatrick, Jane Hammons, Vanessa Hua, Tara Ison, Ben Jahn, Courtney Amber Kilian, Sarah LaBrie, Dinah Lenney, Kara Levy, Brandon Lingle, Lisa Locascio Mira Martin-Parker, Mike McAllister, Donnelle McGee, Anthony J. Mohr, Tom Molanphy, Angela Morales, Erica Olsen, David Page, Sarah Pape, Anthony Seidman, Patty Somlo, Scott T. Starbuck, . Ryan Stradal, Stephen Tollefson, Cameron Walker, Cathy Warner, Emily Meg Weinstein, and Rose Whitmore.

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