Afternoon Events — MCWC “The whole process, sitting at your desk, focusing your mind like a laser beam, imagining something out of a blank horizon, creating a story, selecting the right words, one by one, keeping the whole f...

Hey, #Californiawriters! WTAW Press and Betty Books founder and EIC @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social will be teaching a seminar at the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference in July! Registration ends on June 30 or whenever spots are filled, so register now.
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Thank you so much to all who came out to join me and the rest of the authors.
It was a super fun night!

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"It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." — Joan Didion, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM

“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse….” ✍🏽 📚 🗣️ #LosAngeles #JoanDidion #CaliforniaWriters #BookSky #2025LosAngelesWildfires #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem

Eve Babitz and Joan Didion may be dead. But their feud isn’t A new book on the Los Angeles authors leaves no petty stone unturned as it explores their fraught friendship

Eve Babitz and Joan Didion may be dead. But their feud isn’t

“A new book on the Los Angeles authors leaves no petty stone unturned as it explores their fraught friendship” 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴

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Six black-and-white photobooth snapshots in a two-wide strip featuring an unsmiling Eve Babbitz. The three on the right side show the writer in dark sunglasses with her hair loosely pulled back. In the three on the left, hair down and no shades.

Iconic photo of Joan Didion smoking, cigarette held high, and staring intently into the camera. She is wearing white with her left arm held across her stomach. There is no hint of a smile.

"Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴 #writers #WomenWriters #BookSky #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #quotes #literature #LiteraryQuotes