by Site Owner | Sep 26, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
Edited by Heather C. Lindquist Heyday, $17.95, 145 pages A concentration camp in America is unthinkable for most of us, yet Manzanar was exactly that for the Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945. Many books have been published on Manzanar, but Children of Manzanar...
by Site Owner | Sep 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
Edited by Gayle Wattawa Heyday, $20.00, 304 pages Someone once told me that my revenge was that I lived in California. I am still not sure what that meant, but envy can be a green-eyed monster. California is an American entity to itself. It is the Golden Country of...
by Site Owner | Aug 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Melanie Light, Photographed by Ken Light Heyday, $40.00, 176 pages Through short essays and more than 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs, Valley of Shadows and Dreams explores the dark corners of California’s Great Central Valley. With a foreword by...
by Site Owner | Jul 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
Edited by Gayle Wattawa Heyday, $20.00, 325 pages Some anthologies tend to be just collections of stories; some are so much more. New California Writing 2012 looks to the heart of California, what makes it special and what emotions are conjured by the mere mention of...