Congratulations to Michael Dobkins, a CaliforniaAuthors.com reader from Pasadena who just won our November Book Lotto. We’ll be sending you an autographed copy of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, generously donated by author Frances Dinkelspiel. In his email entry, Michael wrote, “I’ve been waiting two years for this [...]
Stories in History:
Saturday shorts: CA writers around the web
Sunday’s New York Times offers a mixed review of American Lightning, a new history of the 1910 explosion that rocked the The Los Angeles Times, killing 21 people and leaving the newspaper building in ruins. History prof David Oshinsky writes:
The more sensational press accounts from that era portrayed the bombing as “the crime of [...]
Weekend Book Lotto: Tower of Gold
Just out this week: Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant named Isaias Hellman created California by Bay Area journalist Frances Dinkelspiel.
Frances has shared an autographed copy of her book and we’ll be happy to send it to the lucky winner of our latest book giveaway here at CaliforniaAuthors.
But first a bit of the backstory: [...]
No place like home: California authors on California
A commitment to the terroir: On June 30, University of California Press released Wines & Wineries of California’s Central Coast by William A. Ausmus (I ordered mine today) and the Los Angeles Times’ Corie Brown uses the occasion to offer an interesting look at the University of California Press’ move into wine books — they’ve [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
Saturday shorts: CA writers around the web
Sunday’s New York Times offers a mixed review of American Lightning, a new history of the 1910 explosion that rocked the The Los Angeles Times, killing 21 people and leaving the newspaper building in ruins. History prof David Oshinsky writes:
The more sensational press accounts from that era portrayed the bombing as “the crime of [...]
Weekend Book Lotto: Tower of Gold
Just out this week: Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant named Isaias Hellman created California by Bay Area journalist Frances Dinkelspiel.
Frances has shared an autographed copy of her book and we’ll be happy to send it to the lucky winner of our latest book giveaway here at CaliforniaAuthors.
But first a bit of the backstory: [...]
No place like home: California authors on California
A commitment to the terroir: On June 30, University of California Press released Wines & Wineries of California’s Central Coast by William A. Ausmus (I ordered mine today) and the Los Angeles Times’ Corie Brown uses the occasion to offer an interesting look at the University of California Press’ move into wine books — they’ve [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
An excerpt from Now Playing Hand-Painted Poster Art from the 1910s through the 1950s
Anthony Slide with Jane Burman Powell and Lori Goldman Berthelsen. Now Playing tells the story of the previously unexplored cottage industry of historic, one-of-a-kind movie posters that existed throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Read the excerpt and see some of the posters here.
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Writers revisit a presidential journey
From today’s New York Times: “We are shaped by the places we have lived. And Barack Obama has lived in a lot of different places. His memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” recounts formative years spent in Indonesia; Honolulu; Los Angeles; New York City; Cambridge, Mass.; and Chicago. How might these places have helped to [...]
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