Rasheeda Saka is a graduate student in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
In Light Skin Gone to Waste, Toni Ann Johnson depicts the cost of upward mobility.
In Rock of Eye, Troy Montes-Michie refashions the dominant gaze upon Black masculinity.
Lynell George on A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky.
C Pam Zhang on reimagining the West in How Much of These Hills Is Gold.
The latest issue of John Freeman’s eponymous literary journal features talented storytellers.
Walter Mosley returns to noir with Blood Grove.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Dana Johnson, Naomi Hirahara, and Lisa Wells.
This week’s California Book Club: Michael Schaub, Vendela Vida, and Rebecca Handler.
Dana Johnson’s debut novel was a tremendous literary success. Let’s see what a few book critics had to say about it.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Dana Johnson, Maggie Shipstead, and Rachel Syme.
Let’s take a close look at the opening of the California Book Club’s August 2021 selection.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Anthony Veasna So, Octavia E. Butler, and Richard Lange.
Here are five titles that pair well with Dana Johnson’s Elsewhere, California.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Dana Johnson, Anita Felicelli, and Katie Kitamura.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Danny Trejo, Lisa Taddeo, and Ben H. Winters.
This week’s California Book Club: Matt Bell, Rodrigo García, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Let’s take a close look at the opening of the California Book Club’s July 2021 selection.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: William Finnegan, Alexandra Huynh, and James Ellroy.
Here are seven titles that pair well with William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: William Finnegan, Jonathan Evison, and Michael Szalay.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Keenan Norris, Joan Didion, and Stephen Kessler.
The author of Voyage of the Sable Venus believes that the craft of poetry is about fostering trust with readers.
This week’s California Book Club: Rosecrans Baldwin, Otis Redding, and Lisa Taddeo.
The author of Voyage of the Sable Venus believes that poetry is and should remain accessible to everyone.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Robin Coste Lewis, Maria Hummel, and Harmony Holiday.
Let’s take a close look at the opening of Alta Journal’s CBC June 2021 selection.
Here are six titles that pair well with Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus.
This week’s California Book Club newsletter: Robin Coste Lewis, Michel Foucault, and Grant Faulkner.
This week’s CBC newsletter: Joy Lanzendorfer, Rachel Kushner, and Ben H. Winters.
