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A quarterly journal celebrating the culture, people, and history of California and the West. Sign up for our newsletters: https://t.co/wJNWt1Qe2M
Joined May 2017
In a new piece for Alta Journal @AltaJournal, Christopher Hawthorne @ByCHawthorne speaks with three prominent LA architects who lost their Altadena homes in January’s Eaton Fire and are now rebuilding. https://t.co/wivEAvFnEC
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In a new piece for Alta Journal, Christopher Hawthorne speaks with three prominent architects who lost their Altadena homes in the Eaton Fire, and have embarked on the rebuilding process. Almost...
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"A bold adventure into the wilds of Alaska...Weissenbach reconnects with the natural world and rethinks our dependence on technology." Read more in the @AltaJournal roundup of 12 books in July about the West including Ben Weissenbach's NORTH TO THE FUTURE! https://t.co/oa5mngGj58
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Here are 12 books by authors on and of the West, including The Silver State, Little Red Barns, and Salt Bones, that we’re excited to see publish this month.
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Investigative journalism doesn't often make the beach read lists, so really appreciate this. Thanks @AltaJournal "Little Red Barns affirms the important role of investigative journalism in our society."
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3. "I Went Southwest," Brad Rassler @altajournal "Rassler’s thorough account of Welch’s life and legend is a gentle critique of the genre." https://t.co/tvk23k1VZv
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The disappearance and afterlife of Lew Welch.
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For @AltaJournal, I wrote about Langston Hughes's time in Carmel, California in 1933. As a Communist and a black man, he became the target of Conservative aggression and violence. So he wrote his short story collection The Ways of White Folks: https://t.co/yFqyH1dIxd
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How months of harassment and racism at Carmel-by-the-Sea led Langston Hughes to write his landmark story collection The Ways of White Folks.
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June TBR list in the making? Check out THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES on Alta's "15 New Books For June" list. @AltaJournal
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This month, we’ve got our eyes on The Catch, Out There in the Dark, So Far Gone, and 12 other titles of the West.
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In our Weekly Top 5: * Wildfire: too close and personal @AltaJournal * Running from demons @TheEconomist * Experiments in microdosing @5280Magazine * Reading is hard @voxdotcom * "Jackass" as a love language @BWDR
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Showcasing stories from Katya Apekina, Jonathan W. Rosen, Robert Sanchez, Eric Levitz, and Natalie Marlin.
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🇺🇸 A tale of the search to identify the California accent and its ever-changing permutations https://t.co/5fy5TO33vO by @jetjocko via @AltaJournal
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A righteous tale of the rad search to identify the Golden State dialect and its ever-changing permutations.
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"My husband read a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by candlelight as the fire raged in the windows behind him. The air inside the house smelled like a bonfire, then like something toxic." @katyaapekina @AltaJournal
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Author Katya Apekina writes of evacuating her home during the Palisades and Eaton Fires.
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Originally published in 1988 and now expanded with new essays and a fresh preface, this essential collection dives deep into the smoky, ruthless world of film noir. In his @AltaJournal review, fellow Rare Bird author Jim Ruland writes the following… https://t.co/asNVAfV5PM
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𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 by Pulitzer finalist @RosannaXia is the 2025 California Book Club pick from @AltaJournal! The book club celebrates exceptional books by Golden State authors and culminates in a live virtual event. Details:
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#GraphicNovel “Muybridge” The biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by @guy_delisle @AltaJournal
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Join @AltaJournal on May 15 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when novelist Claire Vaye Watkins will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Karen Russell to discuss GOLD FAME CITRUS ✨ Register for the Zoom conversation here: https://t.co/2QX8f7Q42y
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In this newsletter, California Book Club host John Freeman writes about landscape, echoes of the past, and Claire Vaye Watkins’s radical debut novel, the May selection.
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My mom's book, GOLDEN DAYS, has been named by @AltaJournal as #3 on a list of the 25 Books That Define California. I so wish she were still with us to see this lovely recognition. Here's a link to the list: https://t.co/BBOff9zm2B How many have you read? I've read 13.
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.@AltaJournal included @LoriOstlund's "richly conceived, highly anticipated" ARE YOU HAPPY? on their list of new releases for May
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Here are 14 books by authors on and of the West, including So Many Stars, The Words of Dr. L, and The Last Great Dream.
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The fierce folks of @AltaJournal staffing tent 111 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! Visit and grab a copy of this great literary journal. @latimesbooks @latimesfob #LATFOB
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Thank you @AltaJournal and @Keplers for a great event focused on the greatest novels about California. We started with Steinbeck and ended with May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants @mayleechai Thank you @vadiparty Rachel Kushner and @andersjwsw
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Tuesday 4/15 @Keplers , Menlo Park, celebrating (and debating?) @AltaJournal’s new issue 👀 https://t.co/2Hd6xlAhhu
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"I came to understand that behind the struggle between bears and people in Lake Tahoe lay a deeper struggle between people and other people, over bears." Jordan Fisher Smith for @AltaJournal: https://t.co/aY3Kyyr49i
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Thrilled to see THE IMAGINED LIFE listed among the 13 books @AltaJournal is excited about for April! https://t.co/wl5EhfbNw9
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This month, we’re excited about Small Ceremonies, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers, Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, and 10 other books by writers on or of the West.
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