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Boom has transitioned from a subscription-only publication to a web-based freely accessible site, BoomCalifornia.com, which is dedicated to featuring content about California and the West. The quarterly subscription journal, Boom: A Journal of California was published for six volumes from 2011 through 2016. You are currently on the archival site for Boom: A Journal of California. For new content, please visit BoomCalifornia.com.

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Plagued by unsavory stories in American popular culture, the lunch lady has been a mocked and villainized figure for decades. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds in real-time, lunch ladies across the country are emerging as unassuming superheroes feeding millions across the United States.

Revisiting Joan Didion

Boom interviews David L. Ulin, editor of the Library of America's new collection, Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s.

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