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Q&A with Deborah A. Miranda on the 10th Anniversary Edition of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
A Q&A with Bad Indians author Deborah A. Miranda
Linda Ronstadt’s Sonoran Roots and New Memoir Featured in Vogue
Linda’s memoir is a portrait of a place, the Sonoran Desert, an archival romp through Ronstadt’s family history, that explores the music and food of her hometown.
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Heyday selected to receive Amazon Literary Partnership grant
Heyday receives Amazon Literary Partnership grant, serving organizations that “amplify often overlooked and underrepresented writers.”
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Learning to Love Plants
An excerpt from Atava Garcia Swiecicki’s The Curanderx Toolkit on opening our minds and hearts to the plant world.
Imprisoned by Our Own Country
Journey to Topaz author Yoshiko Uchida’s reflections on the legacy of Executive Order 9066.
Freedom Is a Steady Action
Arisa White, author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, on the time-endured lessons we can learn from Mason’s life.
Joan Didion’s passing leaves a gaping hole in California letters
“The pixie dust she cast on the subjects she covered was dazzling,” writes Heyday Publisher Steve Wasserman of luminary Joan Didion, “so much so that you often found yourself succumbing to the spell of her style.”
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Heyday to Present Awards at Online Harvest Event
Join us for the 15th annual Heyday Harvest, honoring Corrina Gould for Lifetime Achievement and Damon B. Akins & William J. Bauer Jr. with the Heyday History Award.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’ve compiled a reading list from our Roundhouse program—receive 20% off featured titles.
The Minds Behind the Books: Heyday Intern Jada Hallman Reflects
For ten weeks, Stanford University student Jada Hallman (’23) has learned the unique inner workings of Heyday.
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CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL’S DREAM MAGAZINE FEATURES NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIA EDITOR TERRIA SMITH
A journey of discovering purpose as a young writer to becoming editor of a statewide magazine devoted to California’s Indigenous peoples, Terria Smith imagines the possibilities.
Between Two Holidays: A Letter from Author and Historian Susan D. Anderson
Author and historian Susan D. Anderson reflects on the state of our nation between two celebrations of freedom—Juneteenth and Independence Day.
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Heyday selected as Amazon Literary Partnership grant recipient
The Amazon Literary Partnership announces that Heyday is receiving a grant and joining a group of 80 wonderful literary organizations collectively awarded over $1 million in 2021.
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Heyday featured in Wyncote Foundation Report
Read our profile in “Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narratives.”
Now Showing: The Hollywood Myth
Critic Mick LaSalle’s Dream State: California in the Movies explores all that is deceptive, promising, and beautiful about the film industry’s depiction of life in its home state.
How to tell readers who you are without telling them who you are
“Unless I communicate what my identity is, readers may assume I’m white.” Ursula Pike writes in Literary Hub about the fine line between a signifier and a trope.
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Rolling Stone: Jonathan Taplin tour-managed rock royalty. Now he’s telling his stories.
In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs. He gives Rolling Stone the inside story.
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Q&A with Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson about Full Ecology
The authors spoke with us about their recent road trip, the philosophy of Full Ecology, and how to confront climate anxiety without losing heart.
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Jonathan Taplin on “The Band: A History” podcast
The author of The Magic Years joins the podcast to talk about his time as
