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[Archinect @archinect]

In a new piece for Alta Journal @AltaJournal, Christopher Hawthorne @ByCHawthorne speaks with three prominent LA architects who lost their Altadena homes in January’s Eaton Fire and are now rebuilding.

https://t.co/wivEAvFnEC

[Hill Nadell Literary Agency @HillNadell]

"A bold adventure into the wilds of Alaska...Weissenbach reconnects with the natural world and rethinks our dependence on technology." Read more in the @AltaJournal roundup of 12 books in July about the West including Ben Weissenbach's NORTH TO THE FUTURE!
https://t.co/oa5mngGj58

[Will Potter @will_potter]

Investigative journalism doesn't often make the beach read lists, so really appreciate this. Thanks @AltaJournal

"Little Red Barns affirms the important role of investigative journalism in our society."

[Longreads @Longreads]

3. "I Went Southwest," Brad Rassler @altajournal

"Rassler’s thorough account of Welch’s life and legend is a gentle critique of the genre."

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[Alta Journal @AltaJournal]

@Longreads @espn @NewYorker @WIRED @NautilusMag Thank you so much for including us!

[Joy Lanzendorfer @JoyLanzendorfer]

For @AltaJournal, I wrote about Langston Hughes's time in Carmel, California in 1933. As a Communist and a black man, he became the target of Conservative aggression and violence. So he wrote his short story collection The Ways of White Folks:
https://t.co/yFqyH1dIxd

[Doubleday @doubledaybooks]

June TBR list in the making? Check out THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES on Alta's "15 New Books For June" list. @AltaJournal

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[Longreads @Longreads]

In our Weekly Top 5:

* Wildfire: too close and personal @AltaJournal
* Running from demons @TheEconomist
* Experiments in microdosing @5280Magazine
* Reading is hard @voxdotcom
* "Jackass" as a love language @BWDR

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[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇺🇸 A tale of the search to identify the California accent and its ever-changing permutations
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by @jetjocko
via @AltaJournal

[Longreads @Longreads]

"My husband read a biography of J. Edgar Hoover by candlelight as the fire raged in the windows behind him. The air inside the house smelled like a bonfire, then like something toxic." @katyaapekina @AltaJournal
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[Rare Bird @rarebirdlit]

Originally published in 1988 and now expanded with new essays and a fresh preface, this essential collection dives deep into the smoky, ruthless world of film noir.

In his @AltaJournal review, fellow Rare Bird author Jim Ruland writes the following…https://t.co/asNVAfV5PM

[heydaybooks @heydaybooks]

𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 by Pulitzer finalist @RosannaXia is the 2025 California Book Club pick from @AltaJournal! The book club celebrates exceptional books by Golden State authors and culminates in a live virtual event. Details: https://t.co/9HVuD6Eznp

[ACEMAXX ANALYTICS @acemaxx]

#GraphicNovel “Muybridge” The biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge by @guy_delisle @AltaJournal
https://t.co/LvFgSJYNtE

[Aragi @AragiAuthors]

Join @AltaJournal on May 15 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when novelist Claire Vaye Watkins will sit down with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Karen Russell to discuss GOLD FAME CITRUS ✨

Register for the Zoom conversation here: https://t.co/2QX8f7Q42y @riverheadbooks

[Lisa See @Lisa_See]

My mom's book, GOLDEN DAYS, has been named by ⁦@AltaJournal⁩ as #3 on a list of the 25 Books That Define California. I so wish she were still with us to see this lovely recognition. Here's a link to the list: https://t.co/BBOff9zm2B

How many have you read? I've read 13.

[Astra House @astrahousebooks]

.@AltaJournal included @LoriOstlund's "richly conceived, highly anticipated" ARE YOU HAPPY? on their list of new releases for May https://t.co/VD9TFJp0Gq

[Daniel A. Olivas @olivasdan]

The fierce folks of @AltaJournal staffing tent 111 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! Visit and grab a copy of this great literary journal. @latimesbooks @latimesfob #LATFOB

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you @AltaJournal and @Keplers for a great event focused on the greatest novels about California. We started with Steinbeck and ended with May-Lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants @mayleechai Thank you @vadiparty Rachel Kushner and @andersjwsw

[José Vadi @vadiparty]

Tuesday 4/15 @Keplers , Menlo Park, celebrating (and debating?) @AltaJournal’s new issue 👀

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[Longreads @Longreads]

"I came to understand that behind the struggle between bears and people in Lake Tahoe lay a deeper struggle between people and other people, over bears."

Jordan Fisher Smith for @AltaJournal: https://t.co/aY3Kyyr49i