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Gerald Haslam's shorter works -- stories, articles, and opinions -- appeared in a large number of magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies... enough so, that this list may be incomplete despite how full it looks! The list will be updated from time to time as more of Haslam's history of periodical publications continue to be re-discovered. Also note that a number of these eventually ended up in some of his story and essay collections as well.

Stories in Periodicals - Essays & Articles in Periodicals - Essays, Articles, & Forewords in Books

STORIES IN PERIODICALS – in chronological order

  • "The Trinket," Gamut, spring, 1966
  • "Chapter One," Flight, spring, 1968
  • "The Doll," Arizona Quarterly, fall, 1971
  • "Smile," Journal 31, spring, 1972
  • "Buck Hunt," Ecolit, spring, 1972
  • "Hawk's Flight," Open Reading, fall, 1972
  • "Rite of Passage," Dakota Farmer, November, 1972
  • "Wild Horses," Brushfire, spring, 1975
  • "Someone Else's Life," Ecolit, spring, 1975
  • "The Killing Pen," Tawte: A Journal of Texas Culture, summer, 1975
  • "Before Dishonor," Open Hand, October, 1975
  • "Marineman," Sonoma Mandala, fall, 1975
  • "Widder Maker," Drilling, December, 1975
  • "Buck Hunt," Black Jack, spring, 1976
  • "Dust," Western Fiction, spring, 1976
  • "Home to America," Sonoma Mandala, spring, 1976
  • "Last Chance,' Western Fiction, spring, 1976
  • "Chapters," Brushfire, spring, 1976
  • "Survivors," Sawtooth, spring, 1976
  • "Happily Ever After," Sonoma Mandala, fall, 1976
  • "Medicine," Scree, fall, 1976
  • "Hawk's Flight," Blue Cloud Quarterly, spring, 1977
  • "The King of Skateland," Scree, 8, summer, 1977
  • "Home to America," Phantasm, winter, 1977-78
  • "The Prophet, or Virtue Unrewarded," Sonoma Mandala, spring, 1978
  • "Dust," Vagabond, spring, 1978
  • "Last Chance," Valley Grapevine, summer, 1978
  • "The Doll," Vagabond, fall, 1978
  • "Man of the Year," Rocky Mountain Review, winter, 1978-79
  • "The Daciano," Scree, summer, 1979
  • "Flesh and Blood," Just Pulp, fall, 1980
  • "Heat," Constellations, summer, 1981
  • "Rider," Main Trend, fall, 1981
  • "The Man Who Cultivated Fire," Maelstrom Review, fall, 1982
  • "Upstream," Cache Review, November-December, 1982
  • "The Horned Toad," New Arts Review, January, 1983
  • "Earthquake Summer," Bilingual Review, January-April, 1983
  • "Buck Hunt," Olympia Magazine, March, 1984
  • "Snapshots," Colorado State Quarterly, spring, 1984
  • "Ficciones," Amelia, April, 1984
  • "Upstream," Home Planet News, fall, 1984
  • "The Souvenir," Cross Timbers Review, autumn, 1984
  • "One Intimate Detail," Amelia, October, 1984
  • "The Late Mr. Mayfield," Cache Review, fall, 1984
  • "The Condor," Amapola, 1986
  • "The Great Oildale Bee-In,"  Redneck Review of Literature, Fall 1987
  • "Road Kill," in AKA Magazine, winter, 1988
  • "Another California" The Californians, Jan-Feb. 1988
  • "Blue Collar Blues," Loose Gravel, Summer, 1988
  • "The Reading," AKA Magazine, summer, 1988
  • "Tarzan's House," Redneck Review of Literature, Spring 1989
  • "That Constant Coyote," Caprice, April, 1990
  • "The Welder's Cap," American Literary Review, Spring, 1990
  • "Upstream," Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 1, 1990
  • "It's Over," Chiron Review, Summer 1991
  • "The Last Antelope," Redneck Review of Literature, fall 1992
  • "Ishi's Dream," Wild Duck Review, February/March 1995
  • "The Cottonwood Tree," Nova, Spring/Summer 1995
  • "It's Over," Metropole, Fall 1995
  • "The Estero," MALT, spring 1996
  • "Mal de Ojo," Ararat, Spring 1997
  • "Two-Headed Man Hangs Self," Chiron Review, Autumn 2005

Stories in Periodicals - Essays & Articles in Periodicals - Essays, Articles, & Forewords in Books

ESSAYS & ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS - in chronological order

  • "Odets' Use of Yiddish-English in Awake and Sing," Research Studies, September, 1966
  • "The Language of the Oil Fields," ETC: A Review of General Semantics, June, 1966
  • "Huckleberry Finn:  Why Read the Phelps Farm Episode?"  Research Studies, September, 1967
  • "Jack Schaefer's Frontier," Rocky Mountain Review, December, 1967
  • "The Sheriff's Children; Chestnutt's Tragic Racial Parable," Negro-American Literature Forum, summer, 1968
  • "Olive Chancellor's Painful Victory in the Bostonians," Research Studies, Sept. 1968
  • "Korzybski's Quest," Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, winter, 1968
  • "Black and Unknown Bards:  American Slavery and its Literary Heritage," ETC: A Review of General Semantics, December, 1968
  • "The Subtle Thread," Arizona Quarterly, fall, 1969
  • "Two Traditions in Afro-American Literature," California English Journal, May, 1970
  • "Por La Causa: Mexican-American Literature," College English, May, 1970
  • "Poets of the Cosmos: American Indians," Western American Literature, spring, 1970
  • "American Literature: Some Forgotten Pages," ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, June, 1970
  • "An Inquiry Model for Black Oral Literature," Negro-American Literature Forum, winter, 1970
  • "Portrait of the Artist as Shaman," Western Review, spring, 1971
  • "New Vistas in Southwestern Literature," Arizona English Bulletin, spring, 1971
  • "Wallace Thurman: A Western Renaissance Man," Western American Literature, spring, 1971
  • "American Oral Literature: Our Forgotten Heritage," English Journal, September, 1971
  • "Literature of the People: Native American Voices," CLA Journal, December, 1971
  • "Running Through Literature," Runner's World, June, 1972
  • "Tell It To Me In Oil Patch, Baby," Drilling, December, 1972
  • "Who Speaks For the Earth," English Journal, January, 1973
  • "Bloodrites:  Speculations on the Biological Origin of Literature," Ecolit, December, 1973
  • "The Light That Fills the World, Native-American Literature," South Dakota Review, spring, 1973
  • "The Last Hurrah and American Bossism," Rendezvous, vol. III, no. I, summer, 1973
  • "Shane: Twenty-five Years Later," Western American Literature, fall, 1974
  • "The Enigma of Amado Jesus Muro," Western American Literature, spring, 1975
  • "The Okies: Forty Years Later," The Nation, March 8, 1975
  • "The Enigma of Amado Jesus Muro," Tawte: A Journal of Texas Culture, summer, 1975
  • "The Okies: Forty Years Later," New Society, June 19, 1975
  • "Oil Town Rumble:  The Young Men of Taft," The Nation, September 13, 1975
  • "Posse Comitatus: Every Man A Sheriff," The Nation, December 20, 1975
  • "Three Exotics: Noguchi, Tsenieshi, and Hartmann," CLA Journal, fall, 1976
  • "Oral Literature in Western American Literature, Southwest Review, fall, 1976
  • "What About The Okies?" American History Illustrated, April, 1977
  • "Predators in Literature," Western American Literature, fall, 1977
  • "`Gravy Says a Lot,' The Poetry of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel," Western American Literature, summer, 1978
  • "Down in the Valley," Los AngelesTimes Book Review ("Westview"), December 17, 1978
  • "Voices From The Heartland," California English, November, 1978
  • "Sources of The Sacred in the Canyon," Western American Literature, May, 1979
  • "California Heartland: Voices From The Great Central Valley," Western American Literature, fall, 1979
  • "Chester Seltzer:  Honorary Chicano," Los Angeles Times Book Review ("Westview"), April 27, 1980
  • "Alive and Well: Armenian-American Writers," California English, fall, 1980
  • "California's Regionalists:  A Lode of Written Unorthodoxy," Los Angeles Times Book Review, ("Westview”) March 29, 1981)
  • "The Other Literary West," Arizona Quarterly, fall, 1982
  • "William Rintoul," Los Angeles Times ("Author! Author!"), October 12, 1982
  • "California's Literary Regions," California English, November-December, 1982
  • "Southwestern Novels of William Eastlake," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, spring, 1983
  • "California Writing and the West," Western American Literature, November, 1983
  • "Confessions of a Regional Writer," California English, January-February, 1984
  • "Alternative Publishing in the West," Western American Literature, August, 1984
  • "Interview with John R. Milton," Western American Literature, August, 1984
  • (as "Frank Laureano") "With Dreams and Sweat: Portrait of a Small Western Press," Western American Literature, August, 1984
  • "Cover Letters," Coda, September-October, 1984
  • "Without a Safety Net:  An Interview with William Rintoul," Hard Row To Hoe, April, 1985
  • "A Regional Ripple Approach to American Literature," English Journal, April, 1985
  • "Writing in the Other California," Coda, April-May, 1985
  • "William Saroyan and the Critics," Amelia, April, 1985
  • "The Great Central Valley Project," SF Camerawork Quarterly, Fall, 1985
  • "Growing Up At Babe's," Bakersfield Lifestyle, October, 1985
  • "Covering Cover Letters," Writers' Journal, November, 1985
  • "A Question of Authenticity, or Who Can Write What?" Western American Literature, November, 1985
  • "A Last Letter to Richard Brautigan," Western American Literature, May, 1986
  • "A MELUS Interview: The Last Vaquero, Arnold R. Rojas," MELUS, Spring-Summer 1986
  • "Reject Slips: A Balm for Writers and as Certain as Death," Coda, June-July, 1986
  • "Voices of a Place," Pacific Discovery, July-September, 1986
  • "William Rintoul," Rural American Archives, July, 1986
  • "A Last Letter to Richard Brautigan," Sonoma Monthly, July, 1986
  • "The Last Vaquero," Western American Literature, August, 1986
  • "Arnold Rojas: Voice of the Vaqueros," The Californians, September-October, 1986
  • "Who Cares What Happens in the Sticks?  A Personal Approach to California's Regional Writing," California English, March-April, 1987
  • "With Dreams and Sweat:  Portrait of a Small, Western Press," California English, March-April, 1987
  • "Journey to the Center of the State," California, May, 1987
  • "Life On (and Off) the Mid-List," Poets & Writers Magazine, July-August, 1987
  • "Californians From Everywhere," This World, July 7, 1987   "Make Friends with Archie Minasian," California English, September-October, 1987
  • "Reading Jeffers," American Poetry, Fall 1987
  • "Gerald Locklin: Literary Maverick" California English, Nov. Dec. 1987     “Richard Rodriguez: Writer on the Edge of Mexico" This World, December 27, 1987
  • "Oildale," The Californians, Jan.-Feb. 1988
  • "Lawrence Clark Powell: California Classic,"  California English, Jan.-Feb. 1988
  • "Father Comes Home," Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 27, 1988
  • "The Biscuits and Gravy Poet: Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel," California English, March-April 1988
  • "The Other California," Sierra, May/June 1988
  • "Floyd Salas--Writer on an Ethnic Edge," California English, May-June, 1988
  • "Pop," This World, June 19, 1988
  • "Father Comes Home," Network, Summer 1988
  • "Hector Lee: Tale-Teller of the West," California English, September-October, 1988
  • "Unexpected Harvest," The Monthly, November 1988
  • "Philip Levine and the Fresno Poets," California English, November/December 1988
  • "Pop," Health Care Update, 2:3 (1989)
  • "Sherley Anne Williams: Woman of Letters," California English, January/February 1989
  • "Baiting the Hook," Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 1989
  • "When Bakersfield Was an Island," The Monthly, March 1989
  • "The Lake That Will Not Die," Pacific Discovery, April 1989
  • "That `Filthy' Book," This World, April 9, 1989
  • "A Personal Approach to The Grapes of Wrath" (part 1), California English, May/June 1989
  • "Fine Wine from East Bakersfield," This World, Sept. 10, 1989
  • "A Personal Approach to The Grapes of Wrath" (part 2), California English, Sept.-Oct., 1989
  • "Tulare Basin: California's Forgotten Wetland," Bay on Trial, Fall 1989
  • "What Happened to Tulare Basin?" California Wildfowl, Dec. 1989
  • "What Happened to Tulare Basin?"  Tularg Report, Dec. 1989
  • "Writing About Home," California English, January/February, 1990
  • "Reflections of a Literary Maverick: An Interview with Gerald Locklin," Chiron Review, Spring, 1990.
  • "Taming Rio Bravo," Pacific Discovery, Spring 1990
  • "Literary California: The Ultimate Frontier of the Western World," California History, Spring 1990
  • "West of What?" California English, May/June 1990
  • "Death of an Athlete," Los Angeles Reader, June 29, 1990
  • "California's Literary Landscape," California State Library Journal, July, 1990
  • "W. H. Hutchinson, 1911-1990," Western American Literature, August, 1990
  • "Water in the West," Aperture, Late Summer 1990
  • "One of a Kind," The Californians, July/August 1990
  • "Reflections from an Irrigation Ditch," Amelia, (VI:2) fall 1990
  • "What About Saroyan?"  California English, Sept./Oct., 1990
  • "Coming of Age in My California: En la Frontera Son los Mismos," The Californians, Sept./Oct. 1990
  • "Other Voices...Other Lives," California State Library Journal, October, 1990
  • "A Proposal," Small Press Review, November, 1990
  • "A California Voice Stilled," California English, Nov./Dec., 1990
  • "Prelude: First Voices," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, January 1991
  • "How Not to be a California Writer," FLANC Newsletter, Spring 1991
  • "Valley Voices, Valley Lives," The Californians, March/April 1991
  • "The Woman Who Invented Southern California," California English, May/June 1991
  • "The Taming of the Kern," This World, October 6, 1991
  • "San Francisco's `Beat' Writers: They Danced on Borrowed Feet," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, October, 1991.
  • "Valley of Extremes," This World, December 15, 1991.
  • "Hispanic California: Literary Glimmerings," California English, November-December, 1991
  • "San Francisco's Literary Renaissance," California English, January-February, 1992
  • "A Various Valley," This World, March 8, 1992.
  • "Valley Vengeance," This World, April 19, 1992
  • "A Tale of Two Surveys," California English, March/April 1992
  • "Long Division," This World, May 31, 1992
  • "A Tale of Two Surveys," California Studies Association Newsletter, Spring, 1992
  • "The Bakersfield Sound," This World, 8/2/92
  • "Robert Easton and the Saga of California," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, October 1992
  • "A Conversation with Dorothy Bryant," California English, November/December, 1992
  • "A Poetry Guru, In Fresno," This World, 11/15/92
  • "Robert Easton and the Saga of California," California English, January/February, 1993
  • "Vallecitos Retreat," Poets & Writers, March/April 1993
  • "Lawrence Clark Powell: California Classic," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, July, 1993
  • "Give That Unsolicited Manuscript a Chance," Poets & Writers, September/October 1993
  • "Robert Easton and the Saga of California," The Californians,  September/October 1993 (11:1)
  • "The Lake That Will Not Die," California History, fall 1993
  • "Dorothy Bryant: Bay Area Voice," California State Library Foundation Journal, January 1994
  • "The Biscuits and Gravy Poet: An Interview with Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, April 1994
  • "Brothers' Boy," Horizons, Fall 1994
  • "A MELUS Interview: Floyd Salas," MELUS, Spring 1994
  • "Writers Helping Writers: A Survey of Writers' Centers," Poets & Writers, November/December 1994
  • "Back in the Valley," Sierra, January-February 1995
  • "A Great Inland Sea," Tularg Report, July 1995
  • "One Writer's View of Literature," CLIPS, Fall 1995
  • "10 Steps to Getting Published," Working Writers, Spring 1996
  • "Brothers' Boy," FSC Contact, Fall 1996
  • "What Horton Hatched," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, April 1997
  • "Brothers' Boy," Mission, fall 1997
  • "Prostate Cancer and the Male Ego," San Francisco Examiner (op/ed), June 25, 1998
  • "Louis, Louis," Sky, August 1998
  • "A Lesson from Home," San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, January 24, 1999
  • "Bruins, Brownies, and Unions: Tuolumne Meadows, 1948," Yosemite, Summer 1999
  • (with Janice Haslam) "Is California Part of the West?" Western Americn Literature, summer 1999
  • "Foreword" to "Art of California and the Pacific Northwest," a special number of California History summer, 2000
  • "Voices from the Valley" and "What Horton Hatched," The Far Westerner (volume Xl, Number 2), 2000
  • "Prostate Cancer Can Be Conquered With Help From More Foot Soldiers," San Francisco Chronicle (op/ed), Nov. 30, 2000
  • "Oakland: A View from the Central Valley," California Studies, (10:1) Fall 2000/Winter 2001
  • "What Horton Hatched," Tiny Lights, (6:2) Winter 2000/2001
  • "A Braided California," California State Library Foundation Bulletin (No. 70), Spring 2001
  • "Growers and Greens Unite," Sierra, May/June 2002
  • "A California Family," California English, June 2002
  • "Six by Locklin: A Review-Essay," Western American Literature, Fall, 2002
  • "Farmlands going, going...Central Valley in Transition," San Francisco Chronicle (op/ed), Nov. 12, 2003
  • "We Will Reap What We Sow in the Central Valley," Los Angeles Times (op/ed), November 30, 2003
  • "Oildale's 'Okie'--Class, Race and 'Merle Haggard Way'," Pacific News Service (syndicated), March 10, 2006
  • "Back Off, Bakersfield," West, April 2, 2006
  • "Lawrence Clark Powell: California Classic," The Quarterly, Spring 2008
  • "Fleas on Board," Healthier Dogs [healthierdogs.com], 8/2009
  • "Flying Solo: Glenna Luschei," Poetry Flash, winter-spring 2010 (Number 301/302)
  • "California Authors: Figuring out our famous California," Forum (The Sacramento Bee), June 19, 2011
  • "Heart of the Valley," Saveur, 140 (Aug./Sept. 2011)
  • "A Dog With Golden Eyes," Dog News (www.ilovedogs.com), 10/11
  • "No guys, just learn to compromise -- In Case You Thought One Wasn't Enough," Zocalo Public Square (New America Foundation [www.zocalopublicsquare.org]), 10/31/2011
  • "Stranger in a Strange Land: Hayakawa Among the Conservatives," BOOM: A Journal of California, vol. 1, no. 4 (Winter, 2011)
  • "Biography of S.I. Hayakawa Published," Rafu Shimpo, Jan. 7, 2012
  • "S.I. Hayakawa: A Remembrance of an Enigmatic Life," California State Library Foundation Bulletin, 102 (winter, 2012)
  • "Language and Politics," Levan Humanities Review, Vol 1, No. 1 (Spring, 2013)
  • "Leon Patterson: An Athlete Dying Young," BOOM: A Journal of California, vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 2013)
  • "The Noir of the San Joaquin," Zocalo Public Square (New America Foundation [www.zocalopublicsquare. org]), 10/16/2013
  • "Arnold Rojas: Voice  of the Vaqueros," Ranch & Reata, vol. 4, no. 1 (April/May 2014)
  • "Investing for Impact," North Bay Biz, Jan. 2016

Stories in Periodicals - Essays & Articles in Periodicals - Essays, Articles, & Forewords in Books

ESSAYS, ARTICLES, & FOREWORDS IN BOOKS - in chronological order

  • "The Awakening of American Negro Literature," in The Black American Writer, edited by C.W.E. Bigsby (Everett/Edwards Company, 1969)
  • "Introduction" to The Bronc People by William Eastlake (University of New Mexico Press, 1975)
  • "The Okies: Forty Years Later," in Society Today, 1976
  • "Introduction" to Now Let's Play A Man's Game by Dean Phelps (Holmgangers Press, 1976)
  • "What About the Okies?" in Selected Readings in American History, vol. II, 1978
  • "Introduction" to Fire On The Mountain, by Edward Abbey (University of New Mexico Press, 1978)
  • "William Eastlake," in Fifty Western Writers, edited by Richard Etulain and Fred Erisman  (Greenwood Press, 1981)
  • "Jack Schaefer," in Shane: A Critical Edition, edited by James Work  (University of Nebraska Press, 1984)
  • "The Okies: Forty Years Later," in Unknown California, edited by Jonathan Eisen and David Fine (N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985)
  • "The Western Story," "William Saroyan," "Rediscovering the West," "Earth Tones: Ethnic Expression in American Literature," "Present Trends," "Unknown Diversity: Small Presses and Little Magazines in the West, 1960-1980" in A Literary History of the American West, edited by J. Golden Taylor, Thomas J. Lyon, et al. (Texas Christian University Press, 1987)
  • "Two Voices, One Valley," in Home Bound by Art Cuelho and David Mas Masumoto (Seven Buffaloes Press, 1989)
  • "Floyd Salas," "Arnold Rojas," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 82 (Chicano Writers), edited by Francisco Lomeli and Carl Shirley (Gale Research Inc., 1989)
  • "Afterword" in Plain Talk About Fine Wine by Justin Meyer (Capra Press, 1989)
  • "Golden State: A Demanding Paradise, an Enduring Frontier" in The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature, edited by David Mogen, Mark Busby and Paul Bryant (Texas A&M University Press, 1989)
  • "Introduction" in A Primer for Buford by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel (Hanging Loose Press, 1990)
  • "Foreword" in The Happy Man by Robert Easton (50th Anniversary Edition; Capra Press, 1993)
  • "Give That Unsolicited Manuscript a Chance," and "Baiting the Hook" in Out of the Slush Pile edited by Haslam and Stephen Glasser (Poets & Writers Inc., 1993)
  • "The Water Game," in California Dreams and Realities edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995)
  • "William Saroyan and San Francisco: Emergence of a Genius (Self-Proclaimed)," in San Francisco in Fiction edited by David Fine and Paul Skenazy (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995)
  • "Give That Unsolicited Manuscript A Chance" and "Baiting the Hook -- A Primer on Query Letters," in Into Print: Guides to the Writing Life edited by Debbie Meyer and Therese Eiben (New York: Poets & Writers, Inc., 1995)
  • "Into the Valley," in The Earth at Our Doorstep, edited by Annie Stine (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996)
  • "Oildale," in Highway 99 edited by Stan Yogi (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1996)
  • "What Horton Hatched" in A Free Library in this City edited by Peter Booth Wiley (San Francisco: Weldon Owen Inc., 1996)
  • "Robert Hass," and “California” in Updating the Literary West edited by Thomas J. Lyon, et al. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1997)
  • "The Water Game," in California Dreams and Realities, second edition, edited by Sonia Maasik & Jack Solomon (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999)
  • "Jack Schaefer," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 212 (Twentieth-Century American Western Writer, Second Series, edited by Richard H. Cracroft (Detroit, etc.: The Gale Group, 1999)
  • "The Lake That Will Not Die," in Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes edited by Terry Beers (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000)
  • "Huckleberry Finn: Why Read the Phelps Farm Episode?" in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a CD-ROM facsimile reproduction of the first American edition, plus relevant criticism (Buffalo: The Poetry Collection, SUNY Buffalo, 2001)
  • "The Other California..." (Autobiographical Essay), Contemporary Authors, Volume 197 (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002)
  • "John Steinbeck's Impact," in John Steinbeck: Centennial Reflections by American Writers edited by Susan Shillinglaw (San Jose, CA: Center for Steinbeck Studies, 2002)
  • "Oildale," in Readings Across American Cultures edited by Helen Gillotte and Jan Gregory (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendfall/Hunt Publishing, 2002)
  • "Growers and Greens Unite," in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy (Second Edition) edited by Michael McKinney (Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004)
  • "Almost Home," My California: Journeys by Great Writers edited by Donna Ware (Los Angeles: Angel City Books, 2004)
  • "Foreword," in Love Bites by Floyd Salas (Berkeley: Mad Dog Publishing Company, 2006)
  • "A Last Letter to Richard Brautigan," in Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writing and Life, edited by John F. Barber (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006
  • "Introduction" in Dutch Courage by Jack London (El Portal, CA: Yosemite Association, 2006)
  • "People and Geography" in Our Valley. Our Choice edited by the staff of The Great Valley Center (Modesto, CA: The Great Valley Center, 2007)
  • "What Horton Hatched" in Open to All: What the Library Means to Me, edited by Molly Fisk, Steve Fjeldsted & Steve Sanfield (Grass Valley, CA: Comstock Bonanza Press, 2007)
  • "Other Californians" in People and Promise of California, edited by Mona Field & Brian Kennedy (New York: Longman, 2007)
  • "Another California...A Real One," Architecture, Ethnicity and Historic Landscapes of California's San Joaquin Valley, edited by Karana Hattersley-Drayton (Fresno: City of Fresno Planning and Development Department, 2008)
  • "Where Long Beach Freeway Led," Some for the Road, (Huntington Beach, CA: World Parade Books, 2008)
  • "Preface," for Salt Lick by Glenna Luschei (Richmond, VA: West End Press, 2009)
  • "Gerald Haslam," Sonoma State University -- Memories and Historical Highlights -- 1961-2011, various editors (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2011)
  • (with Janice E. Haslam) "Foreword," The Bakersfield College Century, 1913-2013, by Tracie Mouser-Grimes (Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield College, 2013)
  • "Foreword," for Wordstruck! by Susanna Janssen, AuthorSupport.com, 2016

 

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