Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. The San Francisco Bay Area is anything but a monoculture. Go to San Francisco, hop across the Bay Bridge into Oakland, then head up into Richmond or down to Hayward, and the landscape around you — the people, the food, the particular cadence of walk and talk — will morph. The Bay Area is known for starting shit. The Bay Area is unafraid to be first.

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Persons: —, Jack London’s, John Steinbeck’s Locations: San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, Hayward, John Steinbeck’s Salinas