New California Writing 2012
by Gayle Wattawa
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Pub Date Apr 01 2012 | Archive Date Jan 31 2014
Description
Here is the latest work by established writers—including Jon Carroll, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Caitlin Flanagan, Michael Pollan, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Francesca Lia Block—standing alongside that of emerging writers—among them Eric Puchner, Daniel Olivas, Rebecca K. O’Connor, and Manuel Muñoz. Also included is an excerpt from Masha’allah and Other Stories, by Mariah K. Young, winner of the 2011 James D. Houston Award.
To create this collection, we combed through a year’s worth of magazines, blogs, zines, and books, from both major and small publishers, to find the most compelling writing California has to offer. The forty-three pieces in this year’s anthology, culled from thousands of choices, offer a variety of voices that will enliven the mind, expand the imagination, and stretch the heart. This year’s contributors straddle cultural fault lines, look critically at our collective heritage, and wonder at the ever-shifting infrastructure of the state.
Advance Praise
“Take a journey to discover a literary geography joining that diverse breadth of biomes to our complex diversity of peoples and their narratives—Californians remembering, yet in 2012, also encountering with the particular astonishment of new eyes, the Golden State as mythic idyll of pain and possibility, prison and sanctuary, rebellion and conservation, broken promises and promises always.”
—Karen Tei Yamashita, author of I Hotel
“There is way too much literary gold to not mine near California’s sunny hills and dark fault lines: the unignorable talent herein is as stable as TC Boyle and rooted as Maxine Hong Kingston, the voices as nouveau noir as Manuel Muñoz and as ballsy as Suzanne Lummis. Sit down, drink something hot or cold, get comfortable.”
—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning
"[California] is as much a golden dream as it is a messy traffic jam, a cerulean sky as it is a million heartbreaks, an idea as much as a destination."
—Andrew Lam, author East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres
“The stories, essays, and poems in this compelling anthology create a crazy-quilt California for the new economy. Expect the unexpected: You will never look at Cesar Chavez, internment camps, environmentalists, or that sexy guy at the bar in the same way again.”
—Cheryl Klein author of Lilac Mines
“Whether standing in North Beach or in the wet soil of the Central Valley, here you have the physical anatomy, the karmic soul and lint-bits of the state I love and loath most— California.
—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Skin Tax
"This unique anthology captures the beauty of the California imagination, shedding light on the power of its legacy, the diversity of its people, and meaning of its great land. Featuring the work of both award-winning and emerging writers, it celebrates California’s rich and complicated identity as one that is the summation of all possible others. "
—Naira Kuzmich, International Editor of Hayden's Ferry Review
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781597141895 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 344 |
