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Publisher’s Note: Living Treasures of the American West
By Will Hearst
“I’d Like a Catholic Diaphragm, Please”
By Pia Hinckle • Photos by Marissa Leshnov
Midcentury Marvel
By Matt Jaffe • Photos by Matthew Smith
A Vineyard in San Francisco’s Black Belt
By Sydney Love • Photos by Penni Gladstone
Buried Histories
By Beth Winegarner
Bernice Bing Steps into View
By Emily Wilson • Photo by Carolyn Fong
Why This Art: Utopian Elation in Julie Mehretu’s HOWL, eon (I, II)
By Court Lurie
Miracle on the Mountain
By Julian Smith • Illustrations by Mark Smith
Sí Se Puede
By Gustavo Arellano • Photos by Larry Hirshowitz
Poetry: “Qualifying Animacy” and “grief logic #6”
By Crystal AC Salas
Five Men, Six Days, and 34 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada
By Robert Roper • Photos by Tod Seelie
Made in California
Stirring the Pot
Interview by Robert Ito • Photos by Christie Hemm Klok
The Mochi Miracle
By Robert Ito • Photos by Andrea D’Agosto
Bumper Crops
By Joy Lanzendorfer • Photos by Andrea D’Agosto
Guitar String Hero
By Gustavo Arellano • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
Paper Pusher
By Lynell George • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
Heads Up
Interview by Steffie Nelson • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
Golden Drams
By Joy Lanzendorfer • Photos by Andrea D’Agosto
Old-World Sage
By Jessica Zack • Photos by Penni Gladstone
Who Knew?
By Katharine Gammon, Robert Ito, Ajay Orona, and Peter Westwick • Photos by Chris Hardy
Wheels of Fortune
Interview by Robert Ito • Photos by Christina Gandolfo
Jam Session
By Lydia Lee • Photo by Andrea D’Agosto
Flour Child
Interview by Lydia Lee • Photos by Penni Gladstone
A Time to Buy
By Ajay Orona • Photo by Andrea D’Agosto
Seeing the Light
By Monica Corcoran Harel • Photo by Christina Gandolfo
California Book Club
Keeping Place, Memory, and History Alive
By Natalia Molina
Why You Should Read This: A Place at the Nayarit
By David L. Ulin
An Acceptable Degree of Coherent Narrative
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Why You Should Read This: The Gold Coast
By David L. Ulin
Because Every Quixote Needs to Pick a Damn Windmill and Charge
By Jaime Cortez
Why You Should Read This: Gordo
By David L. Ulin
She Was Not a Food Writer
By Jim Lewis • Illustration by Thomas Ehretsmann
By Jim Lewis
Marion Davies on Her Own Terms
By Will Hearst
The Dark Season
By David L. Ulin • Illustrations by Steve Carroll
The Real Worlds of Alexis Smith
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Now Open: The Big Orange
By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Poetry: “A Brief History of Pomona House Parties”
By Michael Torres
Alta Picks: Our Binge List
By Jessica Blough, Elizabeth Casillas, Anita Felicelli, and Ajay Orona
Cities in the Sky
By Joseph Giovannini
Fiction: “My Chicano Heart”
By Daniel A. Olivas • Illustrations by Victor Juhasz
Trailblazer: Nicole Martin
By Jessica Klein
