My latest essay in @altajournal, on birthright citizenship and Lisa See's epic family history, ON GOLD MOUNTAIN.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My latest essay in @altajournal, on birthright citizenship and Lisa See's epic family history, ON GOLD MOUNTAIN.
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
www.altaonline.com/california-b...
it’s september, which means two things: lingering heatwaves and a brand-new alta issue
#PrintMagazine #AltaJournal #Reading #Art
#PrintMagazine #AltaJournal #Reading #Art
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
it’s september, which means two things: lingering heatwaves and a brand-new alta issue
#PrintMagazine #AltaJournal #Reading #Art
#PrintMagazine #AltaJournal #Reading #Art
March 24, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Big thanks to the Los Angeles Press Club for honoring my book criticism last night at the LAPC National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
And my deepest gratitude to everyone at @AltaJournal. I am so lucky to get to write and edit here.
And my deepest gratitude to everyone at @AltaJournal. I am so lucky to get to write and edit here.
December 5, 2023 at 1:19 AM
Big thanks to the Los Angeles Press Club for honoring my book criticism last night at the LAPC National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
And my deepest gratitude to everyone at @AltaJournal. I am so lucky to get to write and edit here.
And my deepest gratitude to everyone at @AltaJournal. I am so lucky to get to write and edit here.
We just crossed the threshold into Octavia E. Butler's future. July 20, 2024. Time has caught up with her vision. Early this year I decided that I wanted to track the path of 2024 and look at the year's progression through Butler's lens. My latest for @AltaJournal www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
The Parable Is Now
Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, imagined a future in which California is inhospitable, weather is deadly, wealth disparities are vicious, and a presidential candidate may set the...
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July 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
We just crossed the threshold into Octavia E. Butler's future. July 20, 2024. Time has caught up with her vision. Early this year I decided that I wanted to track the path of 2024 and look at the year's progression through Butler's lens. My latest for @AltaJournal www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
walked into the indie bookstore for “just one book” and now I own four, a tote bag, and a tiny ceramic frog
#Books #Booksky #AltaJournal #Localbookstore
#Books #Booksky #AltaJournal #Localbookstore
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
walked into the indie bookstore for “just one book” and now I own four, a tote bag, and a tiny ceramic frog
#Books #Booksky #AltaJournal #Localbookstore
#Books #Booksky #AltaJournal #Localbookstore
Cartoonists around the world will understand
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoonsofinstagram @altajournal @cartoonstockltd @weeklyhumorist @wsjpepperandsalt @panelstriplol @satevepost @newyorkercartoons @theamericanbystander @airmailweekly
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February 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Cartoonists around the world will understand
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoonsofinstagram @altajournal @cartoonstockltd @weeklyhumorist @wsjpepperandsalt @panelstriplol @satevepost @newyorkercartoons @theamericanbystander @airmailweekly
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoonsofinstagram @altajournal @cartoonstockltd @weeklyhumorist @wsjpepperandsalt @panelstriplol @satevepost @newyorkercartoons @theamericanbystander @airmailweekly
The Obscene-Literature Teacher
Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship resonates with painful relevance today.
My portrait of Lee McCarthy for @altajournal.
Thanks @goecke for asking me to create this art
#freespeach #literatureteachers #womenteachers
#illistration
Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship resonates with painful relevance today.
My portrait of Lee McCarthy for @altajournal.
Thanks @goecke for asking me to create this art
#freespeach #literatureteachers #womenteachers
#illistration
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Obscene-Literature Teacher
Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship resonates with painful relevance today.
My portrait of Lee McCarthy for @altajournal.
Thanks @goecke for asking me to create this art
#freespeach #literatureteachers #womenteachers
#illistration
Lee McCarthy’s landmark First Amendment case against censorship resonates with painful relevance today.
My portrait of Lee McCarthy for @altajournal.
Thanks @goecke for asking me to create this art
#freespeach #literatureteachers #womenteachers
#illistration
Our favorite genre?
Books by people who live near fault lines and write like it.
#California #CaliforniaLit #AltaJournal #Booksky
Books by people who live near fault lines and write like it.
#California #CaliforniaLit #AltaJournal #Booksky
June 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our favorite genre?
Books by people who live near fault lines and write like it.
#California #CaliforniaLit #AltaJournal #Booksky
Books by people who live near fault lines and write like it.
#California #CaliforniaLit #AltaJournal #Booksky
... But Pocock is attempting something different from the familiar narratives, and she achieves that objective with subtle sophistication." (2)
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#greyhound #altajournal #travel #memoir #america #roadtrips
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#greyhound #altajournal #travel #memoir #america #roadtrips
Travel Westward
In Greyhound, Joanna Pocock traces two bus journeys.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
... But Pocock is attempting something different from the familiar narratives, and she achieves that objective with subtle sophistication." (2)
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#greyhound #altajournal #travel #memoir #america #roadtrips
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#greyhound #altajournal #travel #memoir #america #roadtrips
if you see me reading on a wednesday, no you didn’t. i’m “working”
#Reading #Books #BookSky #AltaJournal
#Reading #Books #BookSky #AltaJournal
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
if you see me reading on a wednesday, no you didn’t. i’m “working”
#Reading #Books #BookSky #AltaJournal
#Reading #Books #BookSky #AltaJournal
living through difficult times = buying books like they’re sandbags against the flood
#Books #Reading #Literature #AltaJournal
#Books #Reading #Literature #AltaJournal
September 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
living through difficult times = buying books like they’re sandbags against the flood
#Books #Reading #Literature #AltaJournal
#Books #Reading #Literature #AltaJournal
Over on @altajournal, I wrote an ode to the California condor. Check out Condors: Lords of the Fly:
Condors Are a California Marvel
An ode to the endangered birds that delight those lucky enough to witness their flight.
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December 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Over on @altajournal, I wrote an ode to the California condor. Check out Condors: Lords of the Fly:
Alta is like therapy, but instead of a therapist you get Joan Didion quotes and an essay on architecture as resistance.
#AltaJournal #Art #Architecture #Resistance #Therapy #JoanDidion
#AltaJournal #Art #Architecture #Resistance #Therapy #JoanDidion
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alta is like therapy, but instead of a therapist you get Joan Didion quotes and an essay on architecture as resistance.
#AltaJournal #Art #Architecture #Resistance #Therapy #JoanDidion
#AltaJournal #Art #Architecture #Resistance #Therapy #JoanDidion
Many thanks to @altajournal.bsky.social for naming MY HUNGRY GHOSTS as one of their new books by authors on and of the West “We’re Excited to See Published” in September! 🙏🎉💖
August 31, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Many thanks to @altajournal.bsky.social for naming MY HUNGRY GHOSTS as one of their new books by authors on and of the West “We’re Excited to See Published” in September! 🙏🎉💖
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
For @altajournal I wrote about a new play, Last West, about the photographer Dorothea Lange. More here:
A Poetic Portrait of Dorothea Lange
The Last West theatrical production at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art captures the photographer’s life and lens.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For @altajournal I wrote about a new play, Last West, about the photographer Dorothea Lange. More here:
You know, folks, Snyder is still with us! (Listened to him two months ago on an @AltaJournal gathering & he is still as thoughtful as ever.) He taught Kerouac to meditate & knew all this 50 yrs ago. Maybe we should be "polling" him about ways forward? Or at least read his work?
July 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
You know, folks, Snyder is still with us! (Listened to him two months ago on an @AltaJournal gathering & he is still as thoughtful as ever.) He taught Kerouac to meditate & knew all this 50 yrs ago. Maybe we should be "polling" him about ways forward? Or at least read his work?
Happy to be among this @AltaJournal crew: My profile of writer Alison Mills Newman and her "lost" 1970s novella "Francisco" took a first-place prize at the LA Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. Congrats to all.
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www.altaonline.com/about/a63074...
<i>Alta</i> Wins in Criticism, Illustration, Commentary, and More at the National A&E Journalism Awards
Taking home 9 first-place wins and 20 awards overall, Alta Journal scored big at Sunday’s Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
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December 3, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Happy to be among this @AltaJournal crew: My profile of writer Alison Mills Newman and her "lost" 1970s novella "Francisco" took a first-place prize at the LA Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. Congrats to all.
www.altaonline.com/about/a63074...
www.altaonline.com/about/a63074...
Kids, make more money this summer than selling lemonade! Thanks @altajournal
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoons #babyboomer #babyboomers #slang #lingo #genz #genx #millenials
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoons #babyboomer #babyboomers #slang #lingo #genz #genx #millenials
March 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Kids, make more money this summer than selling lemonade! Thanks @altajournal
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoons #babyboomer #babyboomers #slang #lingo #genz #genx #millenials
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#alrozanskicartoons #cartoons #babyboomer #babyboomers #slang #lingo #genz #genx #millenials
it’s lisa see month at the california book club and i am simply not okay!!!! in a good way!!!
#BookClub #AltaJournal #LisaSee
#BookClub #AltaJournal #LisaSee
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
it’s lisa see month at the california book club and i am simply not okay!!!! in a good way!!!
#BookClub #AltaJournal #LisaSee
#BookClub #AltaJournal #LisaSee
every issue of Alta is a love letter to California, sealed with mild chaos.
#California #Magazine #AltaJournal
#California #Magazine #AltaJournal
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
every issue of Alta is a love letter to California, sealed with mild chaos.
#California #Magazine #AltaJournal
#California #Magazine #AltaJournal
currently romanticizing the act of sitting quietly with a magazine and ignoring everything else
#AltaJournal #Magazine #Print
#AltaJournal #Magazine #Print
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
currently romanticizing the act of sitting quietly with a magazine and ignoring everything else
#AltaJournal #Magazine #Print
#AltaJournal #Magazine #Print
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Octavia Butler saw this coming.
In Parable of the Sower, she wrote about a California consumed by fire, extreme weather, and social collapse—set in 2024. As Los Angeles continues to grapple with relentless wildfires, the book feels less like fiction and more like prophecy.
Octavia Butler saw this coming.
In Parable of the Sower, she wrote about a California consumed by fire, extreme weather, and social collapse—set in 2024. As Los Angeles continues to grapple with relentless wildfires, the book feels less like fiction and more like prophecy.
February 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Octavia Butler saw this coming.
In Parable of the Sower, she wrote about a California consumed by fire, extreme weather, and social collapse—set in 2024. As Los Angeles continues to grapple with relentless wildfires, the book feels less like fiction and more like prophecy.
Octavia Butler saw this coming.
In Parable of the Sower, she wrote about a California consumed by fire, extreme weather, and social collapse—set in 2024. As Los Angeles continues to grapple with relentless wildfires, the book feels less like fiction and more like prophecy.