My California: Journeys by Great Writers

My California: Journeys by Great Writers is a collaboration between Angel City Press and CaliforniaAuthors.com.

All publishing proceeds benefit the California Arts Council, an agency which was forced to suspend school writing, arts education programs and other grants in 2003 because of state budget cutbacks. Since its publication, more than $100,000 from sale of this book has been donated to literary programs in California schools.

Contributed essays include:

• Introduction ― Pico Iyer
• The Big Valley ― Mark Arax
• Transients in Paradise ― Aimee Liu
• Showing Off the Owens ― T. Jefferson Parker
• The Distant Cataract About Which We Do Not Speak ― Mary Mackey
• Ode to CalTrans ― Héctor Tobar
• Montalvo, Myths and Dreams of Home ― Thomas Steinbeck
• The Last Little Beach Town ― Edward Humes
• Surfacing ― Matt Warshaw
• Bienvenidos a Newport Beach ― Firoozeh Dumas
• Cotton Candy Mirrors ― devorah major
• Berkeley ― Michael Chabon
• California Honky-tonk ― Kathi Kamen Goldmark
• 909 ― Percival Everett
• The Line ― Rubén Martínez
• Flirting with Urbanismo ― Patt Morrison
• Waters of Tranquility ― Carolyn See
• An Ordinary Place ― D.J. Waldie
• Almost Home ― Gerald Haslam
• My Little Saigon ― Anh Do
• The Nicest Person in San Francisco ― Derek M. Powazek
• The Un-California ― Daniel Weintraub
• Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin ― Deanne Stillman
• How Many Angels ― David Kipen
• Centered ― Veronique de Turenne
• Returning After Fire ― Chryss Yost
• On Being a California Poet ― Dana Gioia