Elizabeth Casillas

Elizabeth Casillas is Alta Journal’s editorial assistant. A recent graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she has previously written for the Poly Post and Enspire Magazine.

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Mar 28, 2023
Introducing Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’
In this newsletter, we introduce Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, the April CBC selection, and reflect on the book’s conti…
By Elizabeth Casillas
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Mar 22, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (March 22, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris, and Saving Time by…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Mar 16, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (March 15, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include The Greatness Mindset by Lewis Howes, Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood, and The Candy Ho…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Mar 8, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (March 8, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, and …
By Elizabeth Casillas
Mar 7, 2023
Home Is Where the Heart Is
In this week's newsletter, we look at Isabel Allende's use of settings that might seem innocuous in order to dig deeper into a troubled…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Mar 2, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (March 1, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders, and D…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Feb 23, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 22, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include Love Poems by Pablo Neruda, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, and Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Ra…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Feb 19, 2023
Los Angeles Area: Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore

This dynamic cultural center constantly evolves for the benefit of its community.

By Elizabeth Casillas
Feb 15, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 15, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include Victory City by Salman Rushdie, Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson, and The Nineties by Chuck Klost…
By Elizabeth Casillas
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Feb 8, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 8, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include Trust by Hernan Diaz, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and Entangled Life by Merlin …
By Elizabeth Casillas
Feb 1, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 1, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino, Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and How t…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Jan 26, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (January 25, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix, and The Half Known…
By Elizabeth Casillas
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Jan 18, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (January 18, 2023)

This week’s bestselling titles include Trust by Hernan Diaz, Spare by Prince Harry, and The January 6th Report.

By Elizabeth Casillas
Jan 11, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (January 11, 2023)

This week’s bestselling titles include Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor, The Maid by Nita Prose, and Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.

By Elizabeth Casillas
Jan 5, 2023
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (January 4, 2023)
This week’s bestselling titles include A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny, Babel by R.F. Kuang, and The Year of Magical Thinking by…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Dec 21, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (December 21, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, and All About Love b…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Dec 14, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (December 14, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Fuzz by Mary Roach, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy, and Circe by Ma…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Dec 14, 2022
‘Gordo’ and the Backbone of California
The December CBC selection, Jaime Cortez’s short story collection, Gordo, portrays the conditions under which migrant workers live, as …
By Elizabeth Casillas
Dec 7, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (December 7, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, and It Starts with …
By Elizabeth Casillas
Nov 30, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (November 30, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include A Book of Days by Patti Smith, The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama, All About Me! by Mel Brooks…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Nov 16, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (November 16, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Foster by Claire Keegan, Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino, and The Song of the Cell by Si…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Nov 9, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (November 9, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida b…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Nov 3, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (November 2, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten, Oldest Los Angeles by Mimi Slawoff, a…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 26, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (October 26, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Liberation Day by George Saunders, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman, and…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 19, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (October 19, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include When Women Lead by Julia Boorstin, Adrift by Scott Galloway, and The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mat…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 18, 2022
Within a Mexican Kitchen
As you finish Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit, our October CBC selection, check out these four food podcasts, which discuss Mex…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 12, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (October 12, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Life’s Work: A Memoir by David Milch, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breakin…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 11, 2022
‘A Place at the Nayarit’ Opens a Portal to Home
In this newsletter, we look at how Natalia Molina’s work of history, the October California Book Club pick, explores food as a doorway …
By Elizabeth Casillas
Oct 5, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (October 5, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin, The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik, and Profile…
By Elizabeth Casillas
Sep 28, 2022
Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (September 28, 2022)
This week’s bestselling titles include Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Ne…
By Elizabeth Casillas