Diane Power Zimmerman will share highlights from her book Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design, Food, and Hospitality Icon. As the oldest granddaughter of the founders of a famous northern California roadside destination, Nut Tree, Power Zimmerman is uniquely poised to tell the story of a twentieth century icon. The real story […]

a discussion and reading with memoirist Isidra Mencos and fiction writer Leslie Kirk Campbell Isidra Mencos and Leslie Kirk Campbell will discuss what drew them to writing books that investigate the topic of the female body. They will share ways women (themselves included) have felt shame about their bodies and how both societal expectations and […]

Collecting more than 200 stunning photographs in one volume, A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1960s traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century on, through to its emergence as the fifth-largest economy in the world—all as seen through the eyes of photographers whose names are synonymous with fine art photography: […]