Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature Through Essays and InterviewsDaniel A. Olivas202 pages,softcover: $21 San Diego State University Press, 2014. After 24 years as a lawyer in the California Department of Justice, Daniel A. Olivas has heard a lot of stories. His seventh book, Things We Do Not Talk About, gathers essays […]
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Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Michelle Huneven writes about place, addiction and love
This California author examines lost years and life in the mountains.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
A painter and writer uses her art to overcome trauma
Author profile of Japanese-American Lily Havey.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Photographs of America’s pronghorn antelope
Review of “A Pronghorn Year” by Dick Kettlewell.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
The bloody, brave beginnings of the Northwest
Review of ‘The Bully of Order’ by Brian Hart.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Tragedy, coincidence and patterns
Review of “Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West” by Sarah Alisabeth Fox.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
A new century with carnivores
Learning to see predators as companions, not competition.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
An author’s West of dreams and nightmares
Malcolm Brooks mingles romanticism with pragmatic realities.
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Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Beauty and chaos, standing together
Review of ‘The Carry Home; Lessons from the American Wilderness’ by Gary Ferguson.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Best little bookstores of the West
Plus, readers’ favorite books about the region.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Conservation wisdom from the radical center
Review of ‘Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes.’
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Encouraging more ‘nerds of color’
A conversation with L.A. writer Jervey Tervalon.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Fall is for reading
HCN editors’ pick of the best new fiction and non-fiction.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Masters of Dig: A tour of authorial abodes
Visiting the homes of my favorite writers
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
But wait, there’s more
Lit-touring in California and beyond.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Forgetting we live in the desert
Rafael de Grenade on tough landscapes, writing as inquiry and climate change.
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Murder in Old San Francisco
Review of ‘Frog Music’ by Emma Donoghue
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Sovereign contempt
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire:A Story of Wealth, Ambition and SurvivalPeter Stark366 pages, hardcover: $27.99.HarperCollins, 2014. Everyone knows about the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-’06, but another entrepreneurial foray a few years later — larger, bolder, and, ultimately, a debacle – has fallen into historical oblivion. The Astor Expedition […]