This weekend, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas hosts a summertime fiesta that explores Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s connection to Mexico in his travels and writings (such as Log from the Sea of Cortez, The Pearl, and Tortilla Flat). Monterey County Herald.
On Saturday: Big Sur celebrates the publication of Ping•Pong, the Literary Magazine of the [...]
Stories in Surfing/beaches:
A California dream weekend
A surf thriller for summer reading
Among this summer’s wave of surf books, crime novelist Don Winslow’s new thriller, The Dawn Patrol, careens along the San Diego coast and attracts fans all over.
The story revolves around five friends — among them an ex-cop-turned-private-eye — who meet at sunrise each morning to take the early waves as the Dawn Patrol. “With [...]
An excerpt from Surf Culture The Art History of Surfing
By Deanne Stilllman. The Real Gidget: Best-selling author Deanne Stillman tells the story behind the story of the original California girl.
An excerpt from Zero Break An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing
By Matt Warshaw. From its first written record more than 200 years ago, surf literature traces a surprisingly broad arc, but, Matt Warshaw puts it all into historical and cultural context in this must-read intro to his surf-writing anthology.
A California dream weekend
A surf thriller for summer reading
Among this summer’s wave of surf books, crime novelist Don Winslow’s new thriller, The Dawn Patrol, careens along the San Diego coast and attracts fans all over.
The story revolves around five friends — among them an ex-cop-turned-private-eye — who meet at sunrise each morning to take the early waves as the Dawn Patrol. “With [...]
An excerpt from Surf Culture The Art History of Surfing
By Deanne Stilllman. The Real Gidget: Best-selling author Deanne Stillman tells the story behind the story of the original California girl.
An excerpt from Zero Break An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing
By Matt Warshaw. From its first written record more than 200 years ago, surf literature traces a surprisingly broad arc, but, Matt Warshaw puts it all into historical and cultural context in this must-read intro to his surf-writing anthology.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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