Description: "Cultural historian and LA scholar David Kipen tells the story of California through a rich mosaic of diary entries and letters. This book offers a statewide follow up to his highly regarded Dear Los Angeles (2018, Modern Library)"--
Review Quotes: "Books to browse at bedtime don't come any more entertaining than this one. For each day of the year, Kipen--a former director of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts and an eminent writer and critic--has unearthed amusing, shrewd or touching observations from a wide variety of California visitors and natives" --Michael Dirda, Washington Post