| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"Est. 2015" -- taken from cover page. |
| Summary |
"From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alameddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. Vollmann visits the Carr fire and discovers that gas masks are the new normal. Natalie Diaz describes growing up in the desert and remaking her body on the basketball court. Award-winning journalist Lauren Markham revisits her family's tales of their arrival in a town built by a con man on stolen land. Karen Tei Yamashita tells of a Japanese-American man going to Hiroshima after the bomb dropped, writing letters home. Reyna Grande witnesses her mother never adapting after migrating from Mexico. Tommy Orange conjures a native man so lost and broke he's either going to rob a bank or end his life-but love might rescue him. Rachel Kushner sings a hymn to the danger and beauty of cars. And since the Beat movement, California has also given birth to an explosion of poetry. New poems by Frank Bidart, Robin Coste Lewis, D.A. Powell, and recent poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera join newcomers Mai Der Vang and Javier Zamora in this investigation and celebration of California writing. Featuring new work from Héctor Tobar and Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon and Anthony Marra, Geoff Dyer and Elaine Castillo, Freeman's: California will become a benchmark for California anthologies before and to come"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Seven shorts / Jaime Cortez ; Oscar Villalon ; Xuan Juliana Wang ; Matt Sumell ; Jennifer Egan ; Yiyun Li ; Anthony Marra -- How to bartend / Rabih Alameddine -- The end of the Pride Parade / D. A. Powell -- Omaki-san / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Prayer to the redwood / Mai Der Vang -- Facts from the story []'ll never tell you / Elaine Castillo -- A portrait of the artist as a latchkey child / Hector Tobar -- The California pageant / Lauren Markham -- At the shore / Frank Bidart -- Susto / Manuel Muñoz -- California brown / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Eleven short histories of the bison in Golden Gate Park / Heather Smith -- Paramount / Robin Coste Lewis -- Game in 60 sentences / Rachel Kushner -- My mother's California / Reyna Grande -- Ultimate California Highway 1 road trip / Catherine Barnett -- Copperopolis / Tommy Orange -- High windows / Geoff Dyer -- Monterey / Maggie Millner -- The O Ring / Shobha Rao -- The fires / William T. Vollmann -- Bodies built for game / Natalie Diaz -- Columbine / Javier Zamora -- Take It / Namwali Serpell. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 21st century.
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California -- Literary collections.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781611859065 |
| ISBN |
9780802147875 paperback |
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0802147879 paperback |
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9781611854732 paperback |
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1611854733 paperback |
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9781611859065 electronic book |
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9780802147882 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40029464961 |
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