West of the West : imagining California : an anthology / edited by Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr.

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South of Tehachapi / Carey McWilliams -- California as paradisee / Julián Marías -- Saturday, August 9, 1969 / Vincent Bugliosi -- Driving in a back projection / David Thomson -- Artist, friend, and moneymaker / Ben Hecht -- America in the movies / Michael Wood -- Myra Breckinridge / Gore Vidal -- Final cut / Stephen Bach -- Hollywood hustle / Irene Oppenheim -- A normal evening with Audrey / Leonard Michaels -- Los Angeles by night / Jean Baudrillard -- The first oyster / M.F.K. Fisher -- The pachuco / Octavio Paz -- Failure to zigzag / Jane Vandenburgh -- The pump house gang / Tom Wolfe -- Saint Aloysius / Danny Romero

(Cont.) The leader of the pack / Randall Sullivan -- The land / Mary Austin -- California / Simone de Beauvoir -- In the beginning and topographical / Henry Miller -- Big Sur / Jack Kerouac -- November surf / Robinson Jeffers -- Ideal cosy nook / Jean Baudrillard -- Boomer / Linda Niemann -- East of Eden / John Steinbeck -- Everybody's autobiography / Gertrude Stein -- Mount Whitney / Clarence King -- Notes from a native daughter / Joan Didion -- Credo / Richard Rodriguez -- San Fransisco / Simone de Beauvoir -- From sea to sea / Rudyard Kipling -- McTeague / Frank Norris -- The railroad earth / Jack Kerouac

(Cont.) Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston / Baghdad-by-the-bay / Herb Caen -- San Francisco letter / Kenneth Rexroth -- San Francisco jazz scene / Ralph J. Gleason -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Berkeley / Simone de Beauvoir -- In the fifties / Leonard Michaels -- Why it happened in Berkeley / Mario Savio -- The cops and robbers game / Tom Wolfe -- A social history of the hippies / Warren Hinckle -- The killing ground / Stanley Booth -- False match / Henry Bean -- Lies / Renée Lieberman -- LaJaponesa / Raquel Scherr -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- Heart mountain / Gretel Ehrlich -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan -- One thing after another / Gary Soto -- My Oakland, there is a there there / Ishmael Reed -- Wilkommen Castro / Randy Shilts

(Cont.) The J car / Thom Gunn -- Ishi in two worlds / Theodora Kroeber -- The events in California / Czeslaw Milosz -- Journey to nowhere / Shiva Naipaul -- The hip plumber / James D. Houston -- Getting it / Leo E. Litwak -- Escape from Esalen / Jonathan Lieberson -- Ground zero / Ishmael Reed -- The suicides of the temple / Umberto Eco -- Ravishing hyperrealism / Jean Baudrillard -- The desert / Aldous Huxley -- Facing west from California's shores / Walt Whitman

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