Twelve stories deal with farm workers, schemers, pilots, band members, and drifters

Praying For Rain

Literature & Fiction

Spain, Chris

United States

Joshua Odell Editions

This expanded edition of The Other California, originally published in 1990, contains nineteen essays (six of them new to this collection) on the landscape, literature, and life in the Great Central Valley of California. The Valley, a vast, flat patchwork of fields and orchards, has become the richest farming region in the history of the world. It also has a rich literary tradition: William Saroyan, Joan Didion, William Everson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, and Richard Rodriguez were all raised in this agricultural heartland. Haslam's collection represents the experience of living in the Valley through a variety of writings; some are personal, some regional, others literary. Many of these essays were originally published in national magazines; as a group, they offer readers a fine collection of writings on the landscape and literature of California's Great Central Valley.

Other California

History

Haslam, Gerald W.

Americas

In Spilling the Beans, the author of the acclaimed Drink Cultura continues to stir his pot, adding his special blend of heartache and joy, history and humor, biographical and investigative reporting. Among the nearly two dozen short

Spilling the Beans Loteria Chicana

Humor & Entertainment

José Antonio Burciaga

Humor

"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it's your turn. Jump!" Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft-everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style-as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen In The Art Of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life.

Zen In The Art Of Writing

Reference

Bradbury, Ray D

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Essays discuss Bernard Berenson, Walt Disney, Federico Fellini, the cities of Paris and London, art, literature, history, science fiction, and the design of public places

Yestermorrow

BRADBURY,RAY

Human Experience

Quaker Us

USSR Committee

Captain Zzyzx

In Michael Petracca's dangerously antic Doctor Syntax, the wry narrator, Harmon Nails III, tracks a stolen heirloom while questing for sexual and academic fulfillment. Captain Zzyzx reprises Harmon Nails, this time as a rhythm &amp; blues guitarist in search of an even more priceless and elusive quarry -- intimacy. The only things standing in Harmon's way are his own poisonous ambivalence, a sweatsock full of prescription painkillers, a friend's fatal encounter with an out-of-control minivan, a lively but reticent redhead named Tanya Scott, and a lost tortoiseshell flatpick Harmon must find before he can achieve true inner peace.

Petracca, Michael

This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.¶"In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full fledged member of raza."--Gary Soto¶"A passionately lyrical lección para todos about the history of the Western and Southwestern people. Burciaga is deeply rooted in the indigenous realities."--Carlos Santana

Drink Cultura: Chicanismo

Visionary writings from the protean Bradbury, America's preeminent master of the fantastic who has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. Part memoir, part commentary, these writings are an exploration and celebration of ideas. Bradbury reflects on art, literature, history, architecture, science fiction, and the people who have influenced him.

Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures

Ray. Bradbury

History & Criticism

"Bradbury, all charged up, drunk on life, joyous with writing, puts together nine past essays on writing and creativity and discharges every ounce of zest and gusto in him."--Kirkus Reviews ¶"Zen and the Art of Writing is purely and simply Bradbury's love song to his craft."--Los Angeles Times

Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

Essays & Correspondence

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