Our partner Mary Menzel from the California Center for the Book spoke with Beeman, who is one of the nation's foremost Constitutional scholars, at the Newport Beach Library at an author in conversation event in April 2012.
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Full Interview with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
*Note: this is the full-length interview. You can also find a shorter version of this interview here on our site. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of California Reads selected book Farewell to Manzanar (with husband James D. Houston).
Read More »Full Interview with Sally Parry
Full interview with Sally Parry as she discusses Sinclair Lewis's book It Can't Happen Here and the fragility of American democracy.
Read More »Interview with Sally Parry
Scholar Sally Parry talks about California Reads selected book It Can't Happen Here and the fragility of democracy.
Read More »Full Interview with Rebecca Solnit
*Note: this is the full-length interview. You can also find a shorter version of this interview here on our site. In the aftermath of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, or the Loma Prieta Earthquake, author Rebecca Solnit collected hundreds of interviews and spent time in various disaster zones. What …
Read More »Storytelling as Battlefield– A Q&A with Author Daniel Alarcón
In a democracy, all political battles, no matter the details, are about narrative: who tells the story of how we got here, and how do they shape it? The story itself is the battlefield. What does a fictional South American country have to do with our current-day democracy? In Lost …
Read More »Scholar in Conversation: Catherine Jurca
What if Americans elected a dictator? Scholar Catherine Jurca talks with our partner Mary Menzel of California Center for the Book about It Can’t Happen Here, a California Reads selected book. It Can’t Happen Here was written by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression and published in 1935 and tells …
Read More »Full Interview with Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón is the author of California Reads selected book Lost City Radio, a fiction rooted in the human experience of the aftermath of war through the focal lens of a radio show. Here, he talks about writing, history, the current state of our democracy, and what gives him hope …
Read More »Author in Conversation: Richard Beeman
Our partner Mary Menzel from the California Center for the Book spoke with Beeman, who is one of the nation's foremost Constitutional scholars, at the Newport Beach Library at an author in conversation event in April 2012.
Read More »California Poet Laureate on the Road: Project Primavera
As part of our Searching for Democracy initiative, California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera blogs for us on what gives him hope for primavera in our democracy. This miracle of poets in the making… 11 am. En route to Sacramento to judge the California Out Loud poetry recitation championships. 33 …
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