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 [...]
Stories in History:
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.
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.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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