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Editor’s Note: The Power to Discomfit
By Blaise Zerega
She Who Remembers
By Keenan Norris
Sir Francis Drake’s Date with Destiny
By Peter C. Mancall • Illustrations by Steve Carroll
Make It Rain
By Joy Lanzendorfer
Tupac in the Afterlife
By Santi Elijah Holley • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
Poetry: ‘Friendship’
By John Freeman
A Rat-Filled Casino
By Ajay Orona
Personal Favorite: The Gift of Freedom in Guston’s Flatlands
By Justin Richel
Thirsty Burros
By Susan Straight • Photos by Tod Seelie
California Is Hog Wild
By Denise Hamilton • Photos by Gordon Wiltsie
Joan Didion
By David L. Ulin
A JOAN DIDION PRIMER
By David L. Ulin
JOAN DIDION’S CALIFORNIA
By Ava Liversidge and Eleanor Veitch
TRANCAS 1975
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
PERSONAL HISTORY: DOUG AITKEN
By Doug Aitken
SEVEN MINUTES FOR JOAN
By Griffin Dunne
PERSONAL HISTORY: ANE CRABTREE
By Ane Crabtree
THE PERVASIVE LONELINESS OF PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
By Lisa Kennedy
PERSONAL HISTORY: BRET EASTON ELLIS
By Bret Easton Ellis
PLANTING A TREE IS NOT A WAY OF LIFE
By Joan Didion
PERSONAL HISTORY: JANELLE BROWN
By Janelle Brown
JOAN DIDION EXPLORED THE UNDERCURRENTS OF LIFE WITH CLEAR-EYED HONESTY
Illustration and text by Anita Kunz
California Book Club
By Michael Connelly
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS: THE DARK HOURS
By David L. Ulin
NOTHING IS FUNNIER THAN UNHAPPINESS
By Maggie Nelson
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS: THE ARGONAUTS
By David L. Ulin
THE LONG CON
By Steph Cha
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS: YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY
By David L. Ulin
By Teresa Flores
POETRY: ‘FOG POEM NUMBER 71’
By Tongo Eisen-Martin
POEMS OF LIVED EXPERIENCE BACKLIT BY INTIMACY
By John Freeman • Photos by Penni Gladstone
‘THE WAYS OF FICTION ARE DEVIOUS INDEED’
By Sands Hall • Illustrations by Thomas Ehretsmann
ALTA PICKS: THE SIDE HUSTLES OF ALTA CONTRIBUTORS
FAR MORE THAN A BUILDING
By Joseph Giovannini • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
FICTION: ‘TARO’
By Karen Tei Yamashita • Illustrations by Victor Juhasz
By Jessica Klein
