John Freeman has hosted Alta's California Book Club since its founding in 2020. He is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and he edited Freeman's (2015–2023), a literary annual of new writing. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as the anthologies Tales of Two Americas, Tales of Two Planets, The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, and Sacramento Noir. He is also the author of three poetry collections, Maps, The Park, and Wind, Trees. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he lives in New York.
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Introduction: Anywhere but Here I. Early Myths * Bad Indians, Deborah Miranda * Butcher's Crossing, John Williams * How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang * Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston * A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit II. Arrivals & Migrations * Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley * A Place at the Nayarit, by Natalia Molina * The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande * America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo * Solito, by Javier Zamora III. Building Cities * Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara * I Hotel, by Karen-Tei Yamashita * Southland, by Nina Reyvor * There There, by Tommy Orange * The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka IV. Working the Land * Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes * The Consequences, by Manuel Muñoz V. Law & Order * Bad Mexicans, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez * The Dark Hours, by Michael Connelly * Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha VI. How We Sound * The Sellout, by Paul Beatty * Gordo, by Jaime Cortez * The Gangster of Love, by Jessica Hagedorn * Less, by Andrew Sean Greer * Colored Television, by Danzy Senna VII. The State of Poetry * On City Lights at Ferlinghetti's 100th * Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz * On Ada Limon * On Gary Snyder * On Kay Ryan VII. Exploding Fantasias * Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu * Citizen, by Claudia Rankine * Voyage of the Sable Venus, Robin Coste Lewis * Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan VIII. The Suburbs * Holy Land, by DJ Waldie * Mean, by Myriam Gurba * Elsewhere, California, by Dana Johnson * The Barbarian Nurseries, by Héctor Tobar IX. Digital Dys/Utopias * The Gold Coast, by Kim Stanley Robinson * The Every, by Dave Eggers * The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan X. Ruptures * Stay True, by Hua Hsu * Telephone, by Percival Everett * Goodybe, Vitamin by Rachel Khong * The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Rabin Alameddine * Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins * Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn XII. Who is a Citizen? * The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner * The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami * The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan Acknowledgements Appendix About the Author A Note on Type
Introduction: Anywhere but Here I. Early Myths * Bad Indians, Deborah Miranda * Butcher's Crossing, John Williams * How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang * Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston * A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit II. Arrivals & Migrations * Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley * A Place at the Nayarit, by Natalia Molina * The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande * America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo * Solito, by Javier Zamora III. Building Cities * Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara * I Hotel, by Karen-Tei Yamashita * Southland, by Nina Reyvor * There There, by Tommy Orange * The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka IV. Working the Land * Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena Maria Viramontes * The Consequences, by Manuel Muñoz V. Law & Order * Bad Mexicans, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez * The Dark Hours, by Michael Connelly * Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha VI. How We Sound * The Sellout, by Paul Beatty * Gordo, by Jaime Cortez * The Gangster of Love, by Jessica Hagedorn * Less, by Andrew Sean Greer * Colored Television, by Danzy Senna VII. The State of Poetry * On City Lights at Ferlinghetti's 100th * Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz * On Ada Limon * On Gary Snyder * On Kay Ryan VII. Exploding Fantasias * Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu * Citizen, by Claudia Rankine * Voyage of the Sable Venus, Robin Coste Lewis * Barbarian Days, by William Finnegan VIII. The Suburbs * Holy Land, by DJ Waldie * Mean, by Myriam Gurba * Elsewhere, California, by Dana Johnson * The Barbarian Nurseries, by Héctor Tobar IX. Digital Dys/Utopias * The Gold Coast, by Kim Stanley Robinson * The Every, by Dave Eggers * The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan X. Ruptures * Stay True, by Hua Hsu * Telephone, by Percival Everett * Goodybe, Vitamin by Rachel Khong * The Wrong End of the Telescope, by Rabin Alameddine * Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vaye Watkins * Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn XII. Who is a Citizen? * The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner * The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami * The Backyard Bird Chronicles, by Amy Tan Acknowledgements Appendix About the Author A Note on Type
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