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This Book Rewrites California One Essay at a Time

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · 16h

"What’s most compelling about the work gathered here is what it has to say about the present and the future of California’s restless and insurgent literature," writes @altajournal.bsky.social, "At the book’s heart is the necessary notion that literature is dynamic, living, that it changes as we do."

David L. Ulin reflects on John Freeman’s California Rewritten, a collection of essays that not only revisits California Book Club favorites but also reimagines the Golden State’s future through its…

A New Book About Butterflies Sprinkles Magic Around the Bay

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · 2d

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨 provides resonant, affirming answers to the questions: Who is this bird? In what way is it beautiful? Why does it matter? The crowd at the suet feeder will never look quite the same again. Now available in audiobook.

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · 21d

"This comprehensive and gorgeous book is so full of reverence for the prettier flying insects in our midst, so lacking in pretension, and so easy to understand, it’ll inspire even the most fervent city-dwellers to get outside and find the little buggers."

A Broadway actor who pivoted into butterfly research, Liam O’Brien enhances the beauty of the Bay Area with this wonderful, accessible guide.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · 21d

This book is a love letter to Ocean Beach—a place of natural wonder, a refuge from urban life, and a reminder of our place in the larger ecosystem. buff.ly/ojBgQgn

This Book Rewrites California One Essay at a Time

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · 26d

"What’s most compelling about the work gathered here is what it has to say about the present and the future of California’s restless and insurgent literature," writes @altajournal.bsky.social, "At the book’s heart is the necessary notion that literature is dynamic, living, that it changes as we do."

David L. Ulin reflects on John Freeman’s California Rewritten, a collection of essays that not only revisits California Book Club favorites but also reimagines the Golden State’s future through its…

Trump’s Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Sep 15

Herbalist Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering traditional knowledge of curanderismo, and in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙭 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙩 she offers readers the tools to begin their own healing—for themselves, for their relationship with the earth, and for the people. Now available in audiobook.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Sep 15

“It’s more than 80 years since our incarceration and the effects of it are still impacting my community,” says Satsuki Ina, who shares the story of her family's unconstitutional incarceration during WWII in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙠 𝙂𝙞𝙧𝙡. “To imprison children, in particular, is inhumane and damaging.”

Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Sep 3

“What this place, what Heyday has allowed me to do is to create a real community, to be really useful, to create a home for certain people and certain ideas,” said Malcolm, “That’s the role of a publisher, furthering others.”

In Memoriam, Heyday Remembers Malcolm Margolin

The passing of our founder and dear friend Malcolm leaves all of us at Heyday redoubled in our commitment to the work he began here fifty years ago.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Aug 25

Discover California's show-stopping public lands, our collectively owned wild places, through the eyes of Josh Jackson, author of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙. He's joined by @michellefullner.bsky.social of the Golden State Naturalist podcast @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social this weekend. buff.ly/jH1twaN

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Finding Solace in the Forgotten Lands with Josh Jackson

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Aug 22

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 author Josh Jackson shares the unexpected beauty he discovered exploring California's vast public wilderness and the lost art of slowing down. Tune in:

Nature Junkie Radio · Episode

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American Journeys: 4 Exploratory Nonfiction Books | Kirkus Reviews

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Aug 20

"While many flock to California’s national parks, often forgotten are the state’s 15 million acres managed by the BLM. Josh Jackson writes about them thoughtfully in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙. Campers don’t need reservations, and this book just might have readers packing their gear."

These new books take the measure of an often-overlooked America.

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People We Meet: Liam O’Brien is here to crush butterfly misogyny

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Aug 19

The very day he was diagnosed with HIV, Liam O’Brien picked up a butterfly field guide. Quickly, his budding hobby became a full-fledged obsession.

How a career on Broadway led to 'Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond,' a comprehensive field guide for the region.

In the Shadow of the Bridge

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Aug 4

This fall Heyday debuts a sumptuously photographed art book that showcases the wild beauty and biodiversity of the birds of the Greater Bay Area and the conservation dilemmas they face.

Photographer Dick Evans and award-winning writer Hannah Hindley explore Bay Area birds and the conservation dilemmas they face.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 21

In 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙖𝙡 Tony Platt looks unflinchingly at UC Berkeley's complicity in advancing eugenics, Manifest Destiny, and American imperialism from its integral role in the Indian Wars to the Manhattan Project and beyond. Now available in audiobook.

The Third Place | Software for Local Businesses to Build a Sense of Home and Community

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 17

Tonight at Clio's (📍 Oakland, CA) Charles Hood, author of 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙃𝙮𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨 is joined by award-winning journalist @marissaortegawelch.bsky.social, for a conversation about the ghosts of the Pacific and all of the wondrous, strange life that calls it home. Grab a cocktail and join us:

In *Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It*, renowned essayist Charles Hood embarks on an extraordinary voyage across one of the planet’s most mysterious...

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Rosanna Xia’s California Against the Sea, the California Book Club’s July selection, asks us to reimagine our approach to ocean rise and shift to more-sustainable paths.

Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 17

Xia will be joined by her Heyday editor @msatris.bsky.social and California Book Club host John Freeman, who writes, "𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 is the first book on the climate crisis in some time that makes you feel that this change isn’t just necessary, it is possible."

Sea Change

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 17

Can Californians meet the challenges posed by encroaching tides and rising seas? Journalist @rosannaxia.bsky.social shares findings from her book 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙖 with @altajournal.bsky.social today at 5 pm PST. Register for this virtual roundtable here:

‘California Against the Sea’

Rosanna Xia’s reported nonfiction book is the California Book Club’s July 2025 selection.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 15

Knopf Editor John Freeman proposes the contours of a contemporary California canon, encompassing 49 West Coast writers and an iconic literary institution in his new book charting the Golden State's 21st-Century literary landscape—out from Heyday this fall.

California Rewritten

Knopf Editor John Freeman proposes a contemporary California literary canon for the 21st century.

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Heyday @heydaybooks.com · Jul 11

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 combines personal awakening, ecological portraits, Indigenous history, political urgency, and stunning photography to transform the anonymity of public lands into affection. This book is an invitation to know, love, and therefore defend America’s most overlooked public commons.

# 114 The ENDURING WILD: Journeys Beyond the National Parks with author Josh Jackson. - A Big Sur Podcast

Author-photographer Josh Jackson grew up camping the Midwest’s state-parks but it wasn’t until he had moved to California, and after the birth of his third child, in 2015—when every California…

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