Author: Stoddard Martin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349064106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Rough Translations
Author: Molly Giles
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Molly Giles's engaging collection of stories was the winner not only of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction but also of the 1985 San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award for Fiction and the 1986 Boston Globe Fiction Award. Many of the stories in Rough Translations have been anthologized and adapted for radio performance. A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through words and gestures, what we are thinking and what we want from our loved ones.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Molly Giles's engaging collection of stories was the winner not only of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction but also of the 1985 San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award for Fiction and the 1986 Boston Globe Fiction Award. Many of the stories in Rough Translations have been anthologized and adapted for radio performance. A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through words and gestures, what we are thinking and what we want from our loved ones.
California Writers
Author: Stoddard Martin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349064106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349064106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
My California
Author: Donna Wares
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883318437
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My California: Journeys by Great Writersis a collaboration between Angel City Press and CaliforniaAuthors.com. All publishing proceeds benefit the California Arts Council, an agency which was forced to suspend school writing, arts education programs and other grants in 2003 because of state budget cutbacks. Since its publication, more than $100,000 from sale of this book has been donated to literary programs in California schools. To make theproject possible, all of the writers donated their work. Malloy Incorporated generously donated the first printing of the book. The CaliforniaAuthors.com editor and creative director and the team at Angel City Press--including the sales manager and representatives who work with Angel City Press--are also contributing their services and talents. In addition, world-renown artist David Hockney and the J. Paul Getty Museum have contributed use of Hockney's "Pearblossom Hwy (11-18th April 1986--second version)" on the cover. Contributed essays include: * Introduction -- Pico Iyer * The Big Valley -- Mark Arax * Transients in Paradise -- Aimee Liu * Showing Off the Owens -- T. Jefferson Parker * The Distant Cataract About Which We Do Not Speak -- Mary Mackey * Ode to CalTrans -- Héctor Tobar * Montalvo, Myths and Dreams of Home -- Thomas Steinbeck * The Last Little Beach Town -- Edward Humes * Surfacing -- Matt Warshaw * Bienvenidos a Newport Beach -- Firoozeh Dumas * Cotton Candy Mirrors -- devorah major * Berkeley -- Michael Chabon * California Honky-tonk -- Kathi Kamen Goldmark * 909 -- Percival Everett * The Line -- Rubén Martínez * Flirting with Urbanismo -- Patt Morrison * Waters of Tranquility -- Carolyn See * An Ordinary Place -- D.J. Waldie * Almost Home -- Gerald Haslam * My Little Saigon -- Anh Do * The Nicest Person in San Francisco -- Derek M. Powazek * The Un-California -- Daniel Weintraub * Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin -- Deanne Stillman * How Many Angels -- David Kipen * Centered -- Veronique de Turenne * Returning After Fire -- Chryss Yost * On Being a California Poet -- Dana Gioia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883318437
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
My California: Journeys by Great Writersis a collaboration between Angel City Press and CaliforniaAuthors.com. All publishing proceeds benefit the California Arts Council, an agency which was forced to suspend school writing, arts education programs and other grants in 2003 because of state budget cutbacks. Since its publication, more than $100,000 from sale of this book has been donated to literary programs in California schools. To make theproject possible, all of the writers donated their work. Malloy Incorporated generously donated the first printing of the book. The CaliforniaAuthors.com editor and creative director and the team at Angel City Press--including the sales manager and representatives who work with Angel City Press--are also contributing their services and talents. In addition, world-renown artist David Hockney and the J. Paul Getty Museum have contributed use of Hockney's "Pearblossom Hwy (11-18th April 1986--second version)" on the cover. Contributed essays include: * Introduction -- Pico Iyer * The Big Valley -- Mark Arax * Transients in Paradise -- Aimee Liu * Showing Off the Owens -- T. Jefferson Parker * The Distant Cataract About Which We Do Not Speak -- Mary Mackey * Ode to CalTrans -- Héctor Tobar * Montalvo, Myths and Dreams of Home -- Thomas Steinbeck * The Last Little Beach Town -- Edward Humes * Surfacing -- Matt Warshaw * Bienvenidos a Newport Beach -- Firoozeh Dumas * Cotton Candy Mirrors -- devorah major * Berkeley -- Michael Chabon * California Honky-tonk -- Kathi Kamen Goldmark * 909 -- Percival Everett * The Line -- Rubén Martínez * Flirting with Urbanismo -- Patt Morrison * Waters of Tranquility -- Carolyn See * An Ordinary Place -- D.J. Waldie * Almost Home -- Gerald Haslam * My Little Saigon -- Anh Do * The Nicest Person in San Francisco -- Derek M. Powazek * The Un-California -- Daniel Weintraub * Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin -- Deanne Stillman * How Many Angels -- David Kipen * Centered -- Veronique de Turenne * Returning After Fire -- Chryss Yost * On Being a California Poet -- Dana Gioia
California Writers
Author: Stoddard Martin
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
TREMORS: SHORT FICTION BY CALIFORNIA WRITERS
Author: Ken Branch
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0990845605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Eight writers -- four women and four men -- have gathered together to present this soul-stirring collection of contemporary fiction -- one that is sure to whet your appetite for more from these very talented authors. As one of them reminds us: "Here is the voice inside me which says: 'I am shaking the teardrops frozen in time with my literary tremor from a faraway land . . .' I think everyone has stories that are meant to shake or create waves to the uncharted mind."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0990845605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Eight writers -- four women and four men -- have gathered together to present this soul-stirring collection of contemporary fiction -- one that is sure to whet your appetite for more from these very talented authors. As one of them reminds us: "Here is the voice inside me which says: 'I am shaking the teardrops frozen in time with my literary tremor from a faraway land . . .' I think everyone has stories that are meant to shake or create waves to the uncharted mind."
A List of Books by California Writers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Story of the Files
Author: Ella Sterling Mighels
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
An illustrated history of California writers, with extensive sections on Harte, Clemens, Miller, Bierce and the local periodicals and publishers. A considerable amount of the text is dedicated to women writers of California and the Women's Press Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
An illustrated history of California writers, with extensive sections on Harte, Clemens, Miller, Bierce and the local periodicals and publishers. A considerable amount of the text is dedicated to women writers of California and the Women's Press Association
A List of Books by California Writers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Letters of the California Writers' Club, Giving Announcements and Notes about the Club and Its Members, June 1922-June 1930
Author: California Writers' Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
For the Love of Writing
Author: High Desert Branch California Writers Club
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517257644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An anthology of poetry and short stories of the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club (HDCWC).
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781517257644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An anthology of poetry and short stories of the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club (HDCWC).