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Aridtopia: Essays on Art & Culture from Deserts in the Southwest United States is a literary mirage that fuses present day reality and a future imaginary which repositions our view of the world from that of the desert. Aridtopia explores utopian communities, water rights, the L.A. Aqueduct, and even the desert as a stand-in for the terrain of would-be astronauts to Mars.

After driving his Cadillac into the icy waters beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, Jerry mysteriously wakes up in a San Francisco rehab, before setting off to find his lost son, Ethan. Along the way he meets up with a young runaway named Lily and her anarchist boyfriend, Max. Before long Lily's mother, Talia-an erudite if finicky art professor-joins the group, all of them on the road searching for Ethan, and salvation. Set amid the vast spaces between San Francisco, the Salton Sea, Arizona's Four Corners, Lassen, and the lush banks of California's Russian River, Hippie Homeschooling is a road story that chronicles the end of a hippie dream, a novel that links the remnants of the psychedelic generation to today's twenty-first century hipsters, while it explores the perennial possibility of love.

On Kevin's Boat explores the correlations between physical space and the lost regions of our lives, between love and memory and the way vowels sometimes echo the sounds of the sea. It is a book about California, the ocean, and the hidden dreams from far south of the equator.

Knave of Hearts is a collection of new and previously published short stories by Mark Smith, whose previous book of short stories, "Riddle," won the 1992 Austin Book Award.