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  1. California and the Imagination
  2. p. 11
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  1. Boy Wonder: Phoenix Jones and the Superhero Subculture
  2. Jack Hitt
  3. pp. 12-17
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  1. Carnivore
  2. MariNaomi
  3. pp. 18-23
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  1. California’s Techno-Sublime
  2. Jenny Odell
  3. pp. 24-27
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  1. Fifteen Takes on California
  2. David L. Ulin
  3. pp. 28-36
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  1. Dry Things, and: Those Places, and: Almost
  2. Kay Ryan
  3. pp. 37-39
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  1. Dislocation on Pacific Coast Highway
  2. Rosamond Purcell, Dennis Purcell
  3. pp. 40-51
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  1. Devices of Wonder: Artist Lauren Bon reimagines the L.A. Aqueduct
  2. Jon Christensen
  3. pp. 52-57
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  1. The Forgotten Village: Revisiting Steinbeck’s California
  2. Gabriel Thompson, Brian L. Frank
  3. pp. 58-71
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  1. Inside the Tiger Factory: Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication
  2. Peter Trachtenberg, Danica Novgorodoff
  3. pp. 72-90
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  1. Jungle Jangle, and: Headnote to a Done Poem
  2. Douglas Kearney
  3. pp. 91-95
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  1. Jodie Evans Has a Code: How the Political Insider Turned Activist
  2. Carolyn Kellogg
  3. pp. 96-101
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  1. Keller in Effects
  2. Todd James Pierce
  3. pp. 102-115
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  1. The Neighborhood, and: California Sun
  2. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
  3. pp. 116-117
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  1. Bull Shipping: On Chilean Mothers and California Gold
  2. Lili Loofbourow
  3. pp. 118-127
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  1. Neo-fauna of the Amargosa Dune Sea: A primer by Levi Zabriskie
  2. Claire Vaye Watkins
  3. pp. 128-131
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  1. The Geography of Poverty
  2. Paul Reyes, Matt Black
  3. pp. 132-143
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  1. They Left Their Dog and a Record Playing, and: Still Life on Mars
  2. Brendan Constantine
  3. pp. 144-145
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  1. My Life in the New Age
  2. Porochista Khakpour
  3. pp. 146-155
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  1. Calling Art: The Birth of the Late-Night Dedication
  2. Ryan Bradley
  3. pp. 156-162
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  1. Is It Rude to Tell Men That You Don’t
  2. Victoria Chang
  3. p. 163
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  1. Meet Me at the Lighthouse, and: Hot Summer Night (Jazz Songs for Helen Sung)
  2. Dana Gioia
  3. pp. 164-167
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  1. Knock, Knock
  2. Val Brelinski
  3. pp. 168-180
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  1. Escrow
  2. Tess Taylor
  3. p. 181
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  1. Inherent Risk, or What I Know About Investment: On Balancing a Career, Child, and Creative Writing
  2. Camille T. Dungy
  3. pp. 182-193
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  1. The Men We Used To Be
  2. Alex Espinoza
  3. pp. 194-201
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  1. Fantasy Life
  2. Allison Wright, Tabitha Soren
  3. pp. 202-217
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  1. Late-Night Bloomers
  2. Karolina Waclawiak
  3. pp. 218-224
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  1. Heavy Blue Veins: Watts, 1959
  2. Luis J. Rodriguez
  3. p. 225
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  1. Travel Journals: America 1960, California 1961, Mexico 1982
  2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  3. pp. 226-233
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  1. Sky High: Among the Pyros at One of the Biggest Fireworks Competitions in the World
  2. Duncan Murrell, Brian Finke
  3. pp. 234-249
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  1. San Francisco During the Great Food Awakening
  2. Theodore Gioia
  3. pp. 250-255
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  1. Fevered Shapes
  2. Luis J. Rodriguez
  3. pp. 256-258
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  1. The Construction of Place: An Interview With Percival Everett
  2. Matthew Dischinger
  3. pp. 259-264
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  1. Berkeley and the Bomb: The Long Shadow of Ernest Lawrence
  2. Michelle Nijhuis
  3. pp. 265-269
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  1. T. Geronimo Johnson’s Welcome to Braggsville: On Race, Culture, and the War Within
  2. Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
  3. pp. 270-274
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  1. Driving Off Into the Sunset: The California Street-Racing and Mobile-DJ Scenes
  2. Rebecca Onion
  3. pp. 275-278
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  1. Carol Muske-Dukes and the Art of Empathy
  2. Debra Nystrom
  3. pp. 279-286
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  1. Science Fiction vs. Fantasy
  2. Gregory McNamee
  3. p. 287
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  1. From the VQR Vault: The Golden State
  2. p. 288
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  1. Wallace Stegner to VQR Editor, 1938
  2. p. 289
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  1. Featured Contributors
  2. pp. 7-10
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