This treatise details the history of Yosemite artists and writers, and describes many of their most important works.
Steve and John were lying on the grass at Villa Montalvo , the onetime summer home of San Francisco's turn - of - the - century mayor , James Duval Phelan . The villa's namesake was García Ordónez de Montalvo , the sixteenth - century ...
Marty Ritt and I were casting A View from the Bridge. Marty, who was very militantly anti-Kazan, because he had adored Kazan– Kazan had been his model—and he felt terribly betrayed by him. I said, “Who would be the best man that we know ...
West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean ...
The book focuses on the San Francisco Bay Area and its hinterlands, which have long been creative spaces for social experiment.
Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans' leader...and the dinosaurs' greatest enemy.
... a very dangerous citizen." That was the headline in the paper. When I got home my wife said, "I never expected a very dangerous citizen would call on me." ARTHUR MILLER: I've always been on the left, just sentimentally; everybody I knew ...
Travel Writing. WEST OF EDEN: A LIFE IN 21ST CENTURY LOS ANGELES is a bitingly funny riff on Hollywood, Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and LA. David St. John calls it "hands-down one of the funniest--and wisest--works about Los Angeles.
... grandfather's responsibilities at Disney was Donald Duck continuity. So, when we were little, he used to draw pictures of Donald Duck. He could do one in eight strokes. I always thought it was funny that one of his jobs was to make sure ...