Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring an...

A masterpiece by one of the West s best-loved authorsJust when Sacramento journalist Marty Martin...

California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of ta...

This expanded edition of The Other California, originally published in 1990, contains nineteen es...

'One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa ...

Winner of the Western States Book Award for Fiction, Gerald W. Haslam's novel is a moving and pow...

In this collection of twenty-five short stories, Gerald Haslam explores the rural areas and small...

Haslam divides the state into five regions, selecting prose and poetry from each that reflects th...

Stories of quintessential California working people who struggle to make a living