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In a new piece for Alta Journal @AltaJournal, Christopher Hawthorne @ByCHawthorne speaks with three prominent LA architects who lost their Altadena homes in January’s Eaton Fire and are now rebuilding. archinect.com/news/article/1…

"A bold adventure into the wilds of Alaska...Weissenbach reconnects with the natural world and rethinks our dependence on technology." Read more in the @AltaJournal roundup of 12 books in July about the West including Ben Weissenbach's NORTH TO THE FUTURE! altaonline.com/books/g6517365…

Investigative journalism doesn't often make the beach read lists, so really appreciate this. Thanks @AltaJournal "Little Red Barns affirms the important role of investigative journalism in our society."

3. "I Went Southwest," Brad Rassler @altajournal "Rassler’s thorough account of Welch’s life and legend is a gentle critique of the genre." altaonline.com/books/a6467325…

@Longreads @espn @NewYorker @WIRED @NautilusMag Thank you so much for including us!

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️ • High school after losing everything (@espn) • Gaming the system (@newyorker) • On the trail of a lost Beat poet (@altajournal) • Our bodies, our science labs (@wired) • Another version of evolution (@nautilusmag) longreads.com/2025/06/27/lon…

For @AltaJournal, I wrote about Langston Hughes's time in Carmel, California in 1933. As a Communist and a black man, he became the target of Conservative aggression and violence. So he wrote his short story collection The Ways of White Folks: altaonline.com/books/poetry/a…

June TBR list in the making? Check out THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES on Alta's "15 New Books For June" list. @AltaJournal altaonline.com/books/g6484431…

In our Weekly Top 5: * Wildfire: too close and personal @AltaJournal * Running from demons @TheEconomist * Experiments in microdosing @5280Magazine * Reading is hard @voxdotcom * "Jackass" as a love language @BWDR longreads.com/2025/06/06/the…

🇺🇸 A tale of the search to identify the California accent and its ever-changing permutations altaonline.com/dispatches/a63… by @jetjocko via @AltaJournal

"My husband read a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by candlelight as the fire raged in the windows behind him. The air inside the house smelled like a bonfire, then like something toxic." @katyaapekina @AltaJournal altaonline.com/california-boo…

Originally published in 1988 and now expanded with new essays and a fresh preface, this essential collection dives deep into the smoky, ruthless world of film noir. In his @AltaJournal review, fellow Rare Bird author Jim Ruland writes the following…altaonline.com/books/nonficti…

𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 by Pulitzer finalist @RosannaXia is the 2025 California Book Club pick from @AltaJournal! The book club celebrates exceptional books by Golden State authors and culminates in a live virtual event. Details: buff.ly/gOqskaH

#GraphicNovel “Muybridge” The biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by @guy_delisle @AltaJournal altaonline.com/california-boo…

Join @AltaJournal on May 15 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when novelist Claire Vaye Watkins will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Karen Russell to discuss GOLD FAME CITRUS ✨ Register for the Zoom conversation here: altaonline.com/california-boo… @riverheadbooks

My mom's book, GOLDEN DAYS, has been named by ⁦@AltaJournal⁩ as #3 on a list of the 25 Books That Define California. I so wish she were still with us to see this lovely recognition. Here's a link to the list: altaonline.com/books/fiction/… How many have you read? I've read 13.

.@AltaJournal included @LoriOstlund's "richly conceived, highly anticipated" ARE YOU HAPPY? on their list of new releases for May altaonline.com/books/g6455412…

The fierce folks of @AltaJournal staffing tent 111 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! Visit and grab a copy of this great literary journal. @latimesbooks @latimesfob #LATFOB

Thank you @AltaJournal and @Keplers for a great event focused on the greatest novels about California. We started with Steinbeck and ended with May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants @mayleechai Thank you @vadiparty Rachel Kushner and @andersjwsw

Tuesday 4/15 @Keplers , Menlo Park, celebrating (and debating?) @AltaJournal’s new issue 👀 keplers.org/upcoming-event…

"I came to understand that behind the struggle between bears and people in Lake Tahoe lay a deeper struggle between people and other people, over bears." Jordan Fisher Smith for @AltaJournal: longreads.com/2025/04/09/the…