San Francisco Chronicle Review
MANY CALIFORNIAS offers a broad sampling of writers representing the entire range of California writing. Every region of California finds a place in Haslam's superb new collection (Westways). MANY CALIFORNIAS is as diverse and as riveting as the state's landscape. Haslam provides a wonderful introduction to the literature of the Golden State (The Steinbeck Newsletter). MANY CALIFORNIAS lives up to the promise of its title, uniting writers from various ethnic, historic, regional and philosophical corners of the state


Book Description
An exploration of the full diversity of California writers and their writings.


From the Publisher
The second edition of this general interest anthology adds ten new authors and their works plus five new selections from some favorite writers. The new writers are Carolyn See, Victor Martinez, Gina Berriault, Al Young, Molly Giles, Ross Macdonald, Robert Hass, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, David Mas Masumoto, and Oakley Hall. The collection now contains 67 authors and their writings making MANY CALIFORNIAS one of the most ethnically, culturally, and gender diverse anthologies available. Award-winning author and editor, Gerald W. Haslam, divides the state into five geo/literary regions, each of them reflecting regional frontiers with distinct terrains, patters of settlement, and literary outputs: The North Coast; The Great Central Valley; Wilderness California; Southern California; and Fantasy California, a region of the mind. All these Californias and other combine to produce literature that is varied and rich and controversial: many Californias. Oildale native Gerald W. Haslam has published eight collections of short stories, including THAT CONSTANT COYOTE and CONDOR DREAMS.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The second edition of this general-interest anthology adds ten new authors and their works plus five new selections from some favorite writers, including Carolyn See, Victor Martinez, Gina Berriault, Al Young, Molly Giles, Robert Mass, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and David Mas Masumoto. The collection now offers 67 authors and their writings, making Many Californias one of the most ethnically, culturally, and gender-diverse anthologies available.