California Rewritten

Introduction: Anywhere but Here


I. Early Myths




Bad Indians, Deborah Miranda
Butcher's Crossing, John Williams
How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang
Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit


II. Arrivals & Migrations




Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
A Place at the Nayarit, by Natalia Molina
The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande
America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo
Solito, by Javier Zamora


III. Building Cities




Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara
I Hotel, by Karen-Tei Yamashita
Southland, by Nina Reyvor
There There, by Tommy Orange
The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka


IV. Working the Land




Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes
The Consequences, by Manuel Munoz


V. Law & Order




Bad Mexicans, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
The Dark Hours, by Michael Connelly
Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha


VI. How We Sound




The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Gordo, by Jaime Cortez
The Gangster of Love, by Jessica Hagedorn
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
Colored Television, by Danzy Senna


VII. The State of Poetry




On City Lights at Ferlinghetti's 100th
Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz
On Ada Limon
On Gary Snyder
On Kay Ryan


VII. Exploding Fantasias




Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
Voyage of the Sable Venus, Robin Coste Lewis
Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan


VIII. The Suburbs




Holy Land, by DJ Waldie
Mean, by Myriam Gurba
Elsewhere, California, by Dana Johnson
The Barbarian Nurseries, by Hector Tobar


IX. Digital Dys/Utopias




The Gold Coast, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Every, by Dave Eggers
The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan


X. Ruptures




Stay True, by Hua Hsu
Telephone, by Percival Everett
Goodybe, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Rabin Alameddine
Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn


XII. Who is a Citizen?




The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami
The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan

Acknowledgements

Appendix

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