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ISSUE 34
Issue 34: California Sounds
A look inside Alta Journal’s Issue 34.
Upcoming Releases: Offerings for Mind and Spirit
From neo-Nazi true crime to George Saunders’s latest and a long-awaited Vollmann epic, here are the books we can’t wait to read in the coming months.
Inside Alta ’s Music Issue
The eight genres that define the sound of California.
Latest from the California Book Club
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Incomplete Science at White Sands National Park
New findings challenge long-held theories about the first Americans, Ice Age megafauna, and what footprints in New Mexico may reveal about human origins.
Jazz Clubs Strike a Chord Across California
From Oakland to San Diego, these five venues carry forward a century of California jazz tradition—echoing the legacy of Central Avenue and the World Stage.
Rocket Man
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The Case of the Missing Chacmools
Soon after New Age icon and bestselling author Carlos Castaneda died in 1998, a group of his most loyal followers vanished, and many believed they’d made a suicide pact. Geoffrey Gray investigates the writer’s bizarre cult and finds himself entangled in a web of murky financial dealings, sex, possible foul play—and one death-defying supernatural being.
Alta Live: Past Events
Alta Live hosts interviews with magazine contributors, subjects, and California luminaries.
The Latest
Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List
After the Fire
Letters to the Editor: The Best Decade
Let’s Have Some Fun
Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #3 Issue 34
Inside Alta ’s Music Issue
12 New January Books
Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #2 Issue 34
Excerpt: ‘Tosh’
Lights, Camera…Screen Time
The Year in Literary Rediscoveries
