War Comes Home: Dottie Guy
Dottie Guy served in Iraq in 2003 as a member of the military police.
War Comes Home: Starlyn Lara
Starlyn Lara served in the U.S. Army 1995-2007 & is the Women VA Program Manager at Swords to Plowshares.
War Comes Home: Brayden Yoder
Brayden Yoder is a writer & filmmaker who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq & Germany 200-2004.
War Comes Home: Jorge Mariscal
Jorge Mariscal is a Professor of Literature and Chicano Studies at UC San Diego.
The Search for Equality: LGBT Stories of Democracy in Action
Hear from those who know firsthand just how deeply personal the political can be, and vice versa. The Search for Equality: LGBT Stories of Democracy in Action documents first-person stories from San Diego’s LGBT community that explore the basic principles of democracy, inequality, and community activism.
Veterans Stories Highlighted in Wild Blue Yonder
Like much of California, the cultural and physical landscape of the Inland Empire, home to such iconic places as March Air Reserve Base, Norton Air Base, and Riverside National Cemetery, […]
Literature & Medicine: Humanities in V.A. Hospitals
Healing has as much to do with the soul as the body. How can the humanities support our healthcare system—and some of our most vulnerable patients, wounded veterans?
Interview with Daniel Alarcón
*Note: this is the short version of this interview. You can also find the full-length version of the interview here on our site. Daniel Alarcón is the author of California […]
Interview with 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.
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.
