The cultural and intellectual history of the Silver State is examined through the creation of its libraries.... more

Martin, the central character of Hart Wegner's powerful new short-story cycle, is a middle-aged German émigré who has found a home, of sorts, in the glitzy, often surreal setting of contemporary Las Vegas.... more

America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West.... more

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.... more