Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.

Perhaps you’d care to join them?

On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub and Patricia Milich of the California Arts Council will talk about the book at the Benicia Public Library.

On Wednesday, March 19, authors Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Gerald Haslam, and Mary Mackey take readers on a special literary road trip as they share their stories at the library.

Benicia’s My California-fest continues through March and April. The library has set up a blog inviting readers to talk about My California and their own California stories as they read the essays.

Regular readers of this site know that My California is both a best-selling narrative travel anthology and a labor of labor. All of the authors generously donated their work so that ALL book sales benefit the California Arts Council and writing programs for children statewide.