Afterword by Gary Soto. Haslam explores the rural areas and small towns of his native region—California's Great Central Valley—in this collection of twenty-five short stories.... more

An unprecedented look at nuclear politics in California Vehement, widespread opposition accompanied the rise of the U.... more

John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’ve ever seen.... more

Before crowded malls and heavy metal bands, there was the age of cruising. In Cruising State, Buckley takes the reader back to his childhood in Montecito, just outside of Santa Barbara, during the 1950s and 1960s.... more