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West of the West : imagining California : an anthology / edited by Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Civilization.
- California.
- California--Literary collections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 332 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- South of Tehachapi / Carey McWilliams
- California as paradisee / Julián Marías
- Saturday, August 9, 1969 / Vincent Bugliosi
- Driving in a back projection / David Thomson
- Artist, friend, and moneymaker / Ben Hecht
- America in the movies / Michael Wood
- Myra Breckinridge / Gore Vidal
- Final cut / Stephen Bach
- Hollywood hustle / Irene Oppenheim
- A normal evening with Audrey / Leonard Michaels
- Los Angeles by night / Jean Baudrillard
- The first oyster / M.F.K. Fisher
- The pachuco / Octavio Paz
- Failure to zigzag / Jane Vandenburgh
- The pump house gang / Tom Wolfe
- Saint Aloysius / Danny Romero
- (cont.) The leader of the pack / Randall Sullivan
- The land / Mary Austin
- California / Simone de Beauvoir
- In the beginning and topographical / Henry Miller
- Big Sur / Jack Kerouac
- November surf / Robinson Jeffers
- Ideal cosy nook / Jean Baudrillard
- Boomer / Linda Niemann
- East of Eden / John Steinbeck
- Everybody's autobiography / Gertrude Stein
- Mount Whitney / Clarence King
- Notes from a native daughter / Joan Didion
- Credo / Richard Rodriguez
- San Fransisco / Simone de Beauvoir
- From sea to sea / Rudyard Kipling
- McTeague / Frank Norris
- The railroad earth / Jack Kerouac
- (cont.) Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston / Baghdad-by-the-bay / Herb Caen
- San Francisco letter / Kenneth Rexroth
- San Francisco jazz scene / Ralph J. Gleason
- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
- Berkeley / Simone de Beauvoir
- In the fifties / Leonard Michaels
- Why it happened in Berkeley / Mario Savio
- The cops and robbers game / Tom Wolfe
- A social history of the hippies / Warren Hinckle
- The killing ground / Stanley Booth
- False match / Henry Bean
- Lies / Renée Lieberman
- LaJaponesa / Raquel Scherr
- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
- Heart mountain / Gretel Ehrlich
- The joy luck club / Amy Tan
- One thing after another / Gary Soto
- My Oakland, there is a there there / Ishmael Reed
- Wilkommen Castro / Randy Shilts
- (cont.) The J car / Thom Gunn
- Ishi in two worlds / Theodora Kroeber
- The events in California / Czeslaw Milosz
- Journey to nowhere / Shiva Naipaul
- The hip plumber / James D. Houston
- Getting it / Leo E. Litwak
- Escape from Esalen / Jonathan Lieberson
- Ground zero / Ishmael Reed
- The suicides of the temple / Umberto Eco
- Ravishing hyperrealism / Jean Baudrillard
- The desert / Aldous Huxley
- Facing west from California's shores / Walt Whitman
- Notes:
- Originally published: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-91664-6
- 0-585-20184-6
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