JUNE 2012 Newsletter
I've been trying to think of a time when I didn't start out a newsletter with tales of how busy we've beenand I guess it just doesn't exist. In the past month, Heyday launched New California Writing 2012 with events in both Los Angeles and San Francisco (details and videos on both below), staged a major exhibition in conjunction with the David Brower Centennial, and released several books to rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Oh, and there was also a photo exhibit at the Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn, a pilgrimage to Manzanar, and the LA Times Festival of Books (details and pictures of all three below)!
To keep up with all the activity, check out our new "Heyday in the News" section at the foot of this newsletter, which features info on reviews, awards, events, author activity, and the usual general Heyday celebration and mayhem.
As blessed as we've been these past few months, we also experienced the loss of two dear Heyday friends. Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, author of the environmental classic Ecotopia and the beloved true children's book Humphrey the Wayward Whale, died on April 16, and former West Coast Live producer Kathi Kamen Goldmark, who was also the founder and member of the "all-author rock band" the Rock Bottom Remainders, died on May 24. Both Chick and Kathi will be greatly missed.
Natalie Mulford
Marketing and Publicity Director
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In the past few months, Heyday has stretched its arms down the length of the state and across the country as we celebrate our Spring 2012 releases. In late April, we roadtripped down to Los Angeles for the southern launch of our annual anthology's second edition, New California Writing 2012, which was graciously hosted by David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche at the Boyle Heights lending library Libros Schmibros. We we were treated to tacos in Mariachi Plaza and then lulled by the warm night air as we listened to contributors share from the book. Eric Puchner told of his failed (but tanned) California dream in "Schemes of My Father," Stef Willen made us shiver with her Marin ghost story featuring an ectoplasmic Catherine Keener, and Sean Bernard read his short story "Torturers" on Microsoft Word's (bizarre and alluring) "auto summarize" function. See videos of all the readings here.
 In San Francisco on May 16, the new bookstore Ten Lions opened its doors at the California Historical Society for a sold-out, standing-room-only event emceed by ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. Literary fans snaked up CHS's grand staircase and feasted on dim sum from the Mission District's Big Lantern. If you missed the event, see Steven Chiem's three-part video of the evening's ten readings on our Facebook page, featuring appearances by Maxine Hong Kingston, Camille Dungy, J. Tony Serra, and Angie Chau.
About the book:
The pieces in this second installment in Heyday's annual literary anthology capture the demons and dreams of California. Edited by Heyday's acquisitions and editorial director, Gayle Wattawa, and with a foreword by former National Endowment of the Arts director of literature David Kipen, the varied cultural, emotional, and environmental landscapes of the state are evoked in New California Writing 2012 with grit and grace. Among the forty-three contributors are Francesca Lia Block, T. C. Boyle, Caitlin Flanagan, Jon Carroll, and Michael Pollan.
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 Ken and Melanie Light's book Valley of Shadows and Dreams has been dusting up the country from east to west, with art openings in New York and Berkeley, and events from Salinas's Steinbeck Festival to the Arte Amricas in Fresno. Some of Ken's photographs were recently acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and a solo show will open at the Oakland Museum of California late this July. Check out the recent Sunday Review spread in The New York Times, as well as reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly. See our Events section for more information on upcoming appearances.
About the book:
Ken and Melanie Light have embarked on a photographic and literary exploration of a region known for its agricultural plenty. By courageously exposing the way landowners, lobbyists, and the government have betrayed the land and those who work on it, the Lights have created an important book—important not just to those who live in the Central Valley but to the nation that depends upon this region for its food.
In Valley of Shadows and Dreams we see richly fertile land transformed into neighborhoods full of empty tract homes that no local workers can afford. We are confronted head-on with the devastating results of foreclosure. We stand in the Community Center food line in Mendota. We also slip magically onto a midnight dance floor with migrant workers in Tulare, and we sail out across the San Joaquin River on a rope swing. With artistic mastery, intelligence, and passion, the Lights thrust us into a damaged and contradictory world.
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 We're so excited that Kenneth Brower's book has finally arrived! There has been a flurry of activity around its publication, including the May 17 launch of an exhibit at the David Brower Center on the large-format exhibition books Brower helped champion. On hand for an artist talk were author Kenneth Brower and nature photographer Bill Curtisinger, who is best known for capturing deep sea life.
If you missed the exhibit opening, or if you want to see it again, join us on June 14 for a book signing and reading of The Wildness Within at the David Brower Center. Event details are below. Bill Curtsinger and accompanying artist Joseph Holmes's stunning show (featuring seals, icescapes, and arctic diving) will be up until August 31.
Lastly, if we were lucky enough to have you as a Kickstarter donor for this book, watch your snail mail for any contributor benefits you may have qualified for. And if you haven't yet seen Ken Brower's inspiring video, you can watch it here and then grab a copy of The Wildness Within.
About the book: David Brower defined the twentieth-century environmental movement: protecting treasured landscapes from the Grand Canyon to Bodega Bay, serving as the first executive director of the Sierra Club, and helping to win passage of the transformative Wilderness Act in 1964. For the hundredth anniversary of Brower's birth, his son Kenneth Brower has brought together nineteen environmental leaders whose lives and careers were transformed by David Brower. The result is The Wildness Within, in which a repertory company of path-forgers reveal their deepest values and most moving experiences.
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 This year, Heyday celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of its magazine, News from Native California. Join us on July 28 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Oakland Museum of California for a commemorative event that will include the unveiling of Oholone scholar and artist Linda Yamane's Ohlone Basket Project. Ms. Yamane's basket took three years to make and is the first of its kind to be created in more than 250 years. This event is organized in conjunction with the Oakland Museum of California.
To watch a video and learn more about the Ohlone Basket Project, click here.
For more information about the July 28 unveiling, click here.
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Since 1969, former internees, their families, friends, and a growing number of young people join in an annual pilgrimage to Manzanar National Historic Site, where they gather at the cemetery to remember and honor the lessons of the internment experience. Begun in the civil rights era, these pilgrimages grew as younger Japanese Americans spoke out about the internment of their relatives during World War II, shattering their elders' silence and shame about the camps.
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast. This year, approximately 1,200 people came to Manzanar on April 28 for the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. Children of Manzanar editor Heather C. Lindquist was on hand to reflect with former internees on this bleak chapter in American history, when Japanese bloodlines overshadowed American birthrights.
Below are photos of Lindquist with photographer and former Poston internee Stone Ishimaru; and the Ceremony at the Manzanar cemetery.
 
About the book:
Children of Manzanar, edited by Heather C. Lindquist and copublished with the Manzanar History Association, chronicles the experiences of the nearly 4,000 children and young adults held at Manzanar War Relocation Center in the California desert during WWII. Their faces and stories are captured in quotes and accompanied by photos from both official and unofficial photographers, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake.
See Terry Hong's discussion and review of the book on the Smithsonian's Book Dragon blog.
Information on the Manzanar Pilgrimage courtesy of Alisa Lynch, National Park Service.For further details or to plan a visit, see http://www.nps.gov/manz/planyourvisit/pilgrimage.htm
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Saturday, June 2, at 4:30 p.m.
Join photographer Ken Light, author Melanie Light, and special guest Hugo Morales for a reception, conversation, and book signing to celebrate the publication of Valley of Shadows and Dreams. Patrick Contreras and Steve One will appear as special musical guests. This event is presented by the American Friends Service Committee Pan Valley Institute, Heyday, and Arte Amricas.
Art Americas, 1630 Van Ness Ave., Fresno, CA
Free and open to the public; for more information click here or download the event flyer.
Thursday, June 14, at 6:00 p.m.
Ken Brower, author of The Wildness Within, will discuss and sign copies of his book. The exhibit "Thinking like a River: Art, Advocacy, and the Legacy of David Brower" will be on display.
The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Free and open to the public, RSVP to contact@browercenter.org or (510) 809-0900, ext. 116; for more information click here.
Thursday, June 21, at 11:00 a.m.
Revealing Mr. Maugham, a documentary film by Michael House and copresented by Heyday, will screen at the Frameline36 Film Festival. About the film: "Who was W. Somerset Maugham? His hugely successful books and plays were adapted into major Hollywood movies, including Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge; he was the highest paid author of the 1930s. Despite this level of notoriety, the average reader knows little about this fascinating man and his passionate relationship with Gerald Haxton, a native of San Francisco. Filmmaker Michael House's illuminating documentary explores the professional and private complexities of this literary giant, who very publicly left his wife for the man of his dreams."
Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., San Francisco, CA
For tickets and more information, click here.
Saturday, June 23, at 2:00 p.m.
Adam David Miller, author of Ticket to Exile, will participate in the poetry reading "Strength in Diversity: The Poetry of Ecology" with Kim Shuck, author of Smuggling Cherokee. The program is hosted by the Ecology Center's Kirk Lumpkin, a poet, performer, and the Special Events and Promotions Coordinator of the Berkeley Farmers' Markets. He will be joined by two other Ecology Center poets, Jahan Khalighi, a former member of the Eugene Slam Poetry Team, and Nakia "Precious Gift" Dillard. The program rounds out with a young poet from Youth Speaks, organizer of the Youth Poetry Slam. A book signing will follow.
Berkeley Public Library, 3rd floor Community Meeting Room, 2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA
Free and open to the public (limited seating, so arrive early); for more information call (510) 981-6150.
Friday, July 6, at 6:30 p.m.
Fred Setterberg, author of Lunch Bucket Paradise, will discuss and sign copies of his book at the Steinbeck Center's "Meet the Author" Series.
National Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St., Salinas, CA
Free and open to the public; for more information click here.
Wednesday, July 11, through Saturday, July 14
Carlos E. Corts, author of Rose Hill, will give workshops and sign copies of his book at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication.
Intercultural Communication Institute, 8835 SW Canyon Ln, Portland, OR
Registration required; for more information click here.
Friday, July 20, at 6:30 p.m.
David Gilligan, author of Rise of the Ranges of Light, will give a presentation on "Landscapes and Change in the Mountains of California" and sign copies of his book.
Spellbinder Books, 124 S. Main St., Bishop, CA
Free and open to the public; for more information click here.
Thursday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Adam David Miller, author of Ticket to Exile, will read from and sign copies of his book. This event is sponsored by Poetry Flash and the Marin Poetry Center.
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, CA
Free and open to the public; for more information contact editor@poetryflash.org.
Sunday, August 19, at 10:00 p.m.
Gary Young, author of No Other Life and Pleasure, will lead "The Sentence as Poetic Form" writing workshop as part of the 16th Annual Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival.
Parsons Memorial Lodge, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA
Free and open to the public; for more information click here.
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Smithsonian.com features the political posters of Lincoln's Cushing's All of Us or None
Lunch Bucket Paradise author Fred Setterberg was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize
Rose Hill author Carlos E. Corts was on Mixed Race Radio
Andrew Lam ( East Eats West and Perfume Dreams) was featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books
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