Description: California has long nourished artists of all kinds. Its natural beauty, its history as a frontier, its traditions of embracing and accepting experimentation in culture, and even its weather, all combine to create an atmosphere of creativity that is quite different from anywhere else in America. This is the first book to both celebrate California artists of all sorts and examine their relationship to their environment. It features more than 50 interviews with visual and performing artists, musicians, screenwriters, novelists, actors, and others. From Dave Brubeck's childhood on a Concord, CA, ranch to Clint Eastwood on his first memories of Carmel, to Louis Valdez's farmworkers' theater and Maxine Hong Kingston's writing of Chinese myth, these wide-ranging and revealing interviews shed fascinating light on the creative life in the land of plenty.

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