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Dive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future.
Percival Everett, Rebecca Solnit, Tommy Orange, Michael Connelly, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten, "Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level—has been coming out of California and from Californians for decades now." Freeman, one of the sharpest editors working today, has followed the evolution of California's literary life since his teenage years in Sacramento. In over fifty essays inspired by his hosting of Alta Journal's popular California Book Club, he offers an essential road map to California literature now. He shows us how the state's most exciting writers can unlock our understanding of the past, and how they can deepen our imaginations as we confront the most pressing issues that face our society: labor and inequality, migration and citizenship, technology and its limits, changing landscapes and climate catastrophe. Incisive and compulsively readable, California Rewritten will be a source of empowering discovery for any book lover who cares about the Golden State.
Contents
Introduction: Anywhere but Here
I. Early Myths
Bad Indians, Deborah Miranda
Butcher's Crossing, John Williams
How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang
Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit
II. Arrivals & Migrations
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
A Place at the Nayarit, by Natalia Molina
The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo
Solito, by Javier Zamora
III. Building Cities
Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara
I Hotel, by Karen-Tei Yamashita
Southland, by Nina Reyvor
There There, by Tommy Orange
The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka
IV. Working the Land
Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes
The Consequences, by Manuel Muñoz
V. Law & Order
Bad Mexicans, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
The Dark Hours, by Michael Connelly
Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha
VI. How We Sound
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Gordo, by Jaime Cortez
The Gangster of Love, by Jessica Hagedorn
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
Colored Television, by Danzy Senna
VII. The State of Poetry
On City Lights at Ferlinghetti's 100th
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz
On Ada Limon
On Gary Snyder
On Kay Ryan
VII. Exploding Fantasias
Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
Voyage of the Sable Venus, Robin Coste Lewis
Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan
VIII. The Suburbs
Holy Land, by DJ Waldie
Mean, by Myriam Gurba
Elsewhere, California, by Dana Johnson
The Barbarian Nurseries, by Héctor Tobar
IX. Digital Dys/Utopias
The Gold Coast, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Every, by Dave Eggers
The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
X. Ruptures
Stay True, by Hua Hsu
Telephone, by Percival Everett
Goodybe, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Rabin Alameddine
Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
XII. Who is a Citizen?
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami
The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan
Acknowledgements
Appendix
About the Author
A Note on Type
