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About My California: Journeys By Great Writers
Review "...each of the contributors manages to transcend the thoroughly respectable genre of travel writing to achieve something more exalted." -- Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2004, Jonathan Kirsch review"Here are views of this singular place from a dazzling roster of writers...by turns quirky and passionate and argumentative." -- David Freeman, author, It's All True: A Novel of Hollywood"My California is both a good book and a good idea." -- Santa Barbara News-Press, July 4,2004"These 27 essays prove once again that California is the Golden State." -- Author Ray Bradbury"This extraordinary gesture is a display of kindness, civic responsibility, and a great concern for...funding of the arts." -- California Arts Council website Product Description My California: Journeys by Great Writers is 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 the project 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 From the Publisher "California is the only state in the Union that has flourished beyond all expectations, primarily because it has always been all things to all people. And like the seduction of the Muses, she always appears in the garb of our own desires..." So writes Thomas Steinbeck in "Montalvo, Myths and Dreams of Home," one of twenty-seven stories featured in MY CALIFORNIA, an extraordinary creative outpouring from the states literary community in support of the California Arts Council. MY CALIFORNIA is a collaboration between Angel City Press in Santa Monica and CaliforniaAuthors.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Pico Iyer's Introduction to My California: To those of us who came to California from far away as so many of us do the place we imagine (and so find) seems located somewhere around the day after tomorrow. Ever since Hernando Cortez named this stretch of land, by some accounts, after a fictional island of the Amazons (fashioned in a fifteenth-century Spanish novel), California, more than anywhere, has been a province of the imagination that confounds most of us who confront it in reality. A state of consciousness, you coul
