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9 Oct 2025
In a new piece for Alta Journal @AltaJournal, Christopher Hawthorne @ByCHawthorne speaks with three prominent LA architects who lost their Altadena homes in January’s Eaton Fire and are now rebuilding.
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2 Jul 2025
"A bold adventure into the wilds of Alaska...Weissenbach reconnects with the natural world and rethinks our dependence on technology." Read more in the @AltaJournal roundup of 12 books in July about the West including Ben Weissenbach's NORTH TO THE FUTURE!
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Alta Journal retweeted
30 Jun 2025
Investigative journalism doesn't often make the beach read lists, so really appreciate this. Thanks @AltaJournal
"Little Red Barns affirms the important role of investigative journalism in our society."
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Alta Journal retweeted
27 Jun 2025
3. "I Went Southwest," Brad Rassler @altajournal
"Rassler’s thorough account of Welch’s life and legend is a gentle critique of the genre."
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Alta Journal retweeted
26 Jun 2025
For @AltaJournal, I wrote about Langston Hughes's time in Carmel, California in 1933. As a Communist and a black man, he became the target of Conservative aggression and violence. So he wrote his short story collection The Ways of White Folks:
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Alta Journal retweeted
6 Jun 2025
June TBR list in the making? Check out THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES on Alta's "15 New Books For June" list. @AltaJournal
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Alta Journal retweeted
6 Jun 2025
In our Weekly Top 5:
* Wildfire: too close and personal @AltaJournal
* Running from demons @TheEconomist
* Experiments in microdosing @5280Magazine
* Reading is hard @voxdotcom
* "Jackass" as a love language @BWDR
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🇺🇸 A tale of the search to identify the California accent and its ever-changing permutations
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Alta Journal retweeted
3 Jun 2025
"My husband read a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by candlelight as the fire raged in the windows behind him. The air inside the house smelled like a bonfire, then like something toxic." @katyaapekina @AltaJournal
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Alta Journal retweeted
3 Jun 2025
Originally published in 1988 and now expanded with new essays and a fresh preface, this essential collection dives deep into the smoky, ruthless world of film noir.
In his @AltaJournal review, fellow Rare Bird author Jim Ruland writes the following…altaonline.com/books/nonfict…
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Alta Journal retweeted
19 May 2025
𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 by Pulitzer finalist @RosannaXia is the 2025 California Book Club pick from @AltaJournal! The book club celebrates exceptional books by Golden State authors and culminates in a live virtual event. Details: buff.ly/gOqskaH
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Alta Journal retweeted
15 May 2025
#GraphicNovel “Muybridge” The biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by @guy_delisle @AltaJournal
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Alta Journal retweeted
7 May 2025
Join @AltaJournal on May 15 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when novelist Claire Vaye Watkins will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Karen Russell to discuss GOLD FAME CITRUS ✨
Register for the Zoom conversation here: altaonline.com/california-bo… @riverheadbooks
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My mom's book, GOLDEN DAYS, has been named by @AltaJournal as #3 on a list of the 25 Books That Define California. I so wish she were still with us to see this lovely recognition. Here's a link to the list: altaonline.com/books/fiction…
How many have you read? I've read 13.
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Alta Journal retweeted
30 Apr 2025
.@AltaJournal included @LoriOstlund's "richly conceived, highly anticipated" ARE YOU HAPPY? on their list of new releases for May altaonline.com/books/g645541…
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Alta Journal retweeted
26 Apr 2025
The fierce folks of @AltaJournal staffing tent 111 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! Visit and grab a copy of this great literary journal. @latimesbooks @latimesfob #LATFOB
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Alta Journal retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Thank you @AltaJournal and @Keplers for a great event focused on the greatest novels about California. We started with Steinbeck and ended with May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants @mayleechai Thank you @vadiparty Rachel Kushner and @andersjwsw
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Alta Journal retweeted
11 Apr 2025
Tuesday 4/15 @Keplers , Menlo Park, celebrating (and debating?) @AltaJournal’s new issue 👀
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Alta Journal retweeted
9 Apr 2025
"I came to understand that behind the struggle between bears and people in Lake Tahoe lay a deeper struggle between people and other people, over bears."
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ALT Headline: The Battle Over Black Bears Dek: A fatality and an increased number of home invasions and attacks have raised the stakes—just in time for spring, when hibernation ends. Tagline: Jordan Fisher Smith for Alta A logo in the bottom right reads “Longreads Editor’s Pick”
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Alta Journal retweeted
31 Mar 2025
Thrilled to see THE IMAGINED LIFE listed among the 13 books @AltaJournal is excited about for April!
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