Protect the Desert: Night at the Brewery

Protect the Desert: Night at the Brewery

Come join us for a fun evening at the brewery to raise awareness and funds for protecting our precious desert. The event will feature book release, speakers, a raffle, and of course, fun!

Release of our Bier De Mars- Desert botanical beer

Date: Wednesday March 26

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: Angel City Brewery

Let's come together to show our support for the desert through the Mojave Desert Land Trust and Celebrate the book release for Yuck!

Featuring Barret Baumgart and Deanne Stillman.

Barret Baumgart is the author of China Lake, winner of the 2017 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction and named a best book of the year by Kirkus and Brooklyn Rail, and YUCK, a book about the Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia, which won the 2023 Wandering Aengus Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

“Barret Baumgart’s appropriately tangled and marvelous ode to the Joshua tree deftly honors one of the Southwest’s most compelling and symbolically rich inhabitants. It also confirms Baumgart’s status as one of the leading chroniclers of the California weird.”—Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis and High Weirdness

Preorder YUCK

Deanne Stillman is the author of award-winning literary nonfiction, including Twentynine Palms, an LA Times “Best Book of the Year” that Hunter S. Thompson called “a strange and brilliant story by an important American writer,” and Desert Reckoning, winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards, and an Amazon Editors Pick. Her book Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West was also an LA Times "Best Book of the Year" and launched the ongoing conversation about the wars against wild horses. "A hymn to the homeland." —John Fusco, screenwriter of Hidalgo and The Highwaymen; "Remarkable." —Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

“Like the best nonfiction writers of our time (Jon Krakauer and Bruce Chatwin come to mind), Stillman’s prose is inviting, her voice authoritative and her vision imaginative and impressively broad.” —Pam Houston, Los Angeles Times

Shop all Deanne’s books here