“The history of the medical marijuana movement is paved with untold stories like this one author Alia Volz has now brought to light with her new memoir Home Baked.” – Zack Ruskin for LEAF.
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Author of HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020).
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award!!!
Friends, I am STUNNED!!! The other books nominated for Autobiography are tremendous, and I’m deeply honored to be in such fine company. The committee truly cannot go wrong. What a marvelous turn of events for HOME BAKED! I am also certain that this is the first cannabis book to be considered for one of the…
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Best Women’s Travel Writing, Vol. 12
HAPPY PUB DAY TO US!!! Overjoyed that my essay “Finding El Saez” has been selected for The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Vol. 12 from Travelers Tales Books. As Andrew McCarthy wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “For more than 20 years, Travelers’ Tales has been publishing books that might best be described as the…
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Winner of the 2020 GOLDEN POPPY AWARD for nonfiction from the CA Independent Booksellers Alliance!
I’m floored to learn that HOME BAKED won the 2020 Golden Poppy for nonfiction! Recent recipients include Julia Flynn Siler and Michael Pollan, so I’m in ridiculously fine company. In normal times, this would have involved a fancy lunch, a special dress, and shaky hands. But it’s 2020 so I’m chomping on Krispy Kreme delivery…
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HuffPost Personal: My Mom Secretly Made Pot Brownies for AIDS Patients
A family of deer exploded out of the forest. I must have been 6, squatting in the dirt driveway with my model horses as the animals dodged around me, eyes bulging. Then a helicopter emerged from behind the trees, its body like a giant insect, loud as a machine gun. It hovered low overhead, sending debris whirling into my face. My mom rushed out of the house and pulled me close to her body. The chopper moved on toward the next ranch.
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Guernica Magazine: Baking Through a Plague
On one of her monthly brownie runs, my mom caught her first glimpse of the monster coming our way.
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The family weed business is now in Newsweek???
In the new memoir, Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, writer Alia Volz tells the story of her mother’s 1970s cannabis edibles business, which sold around 10,000 illegal pot brownies every month throughout San Francisco.
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Interview with LAMBDA LITERARY
“The story I wanted to tell was the social history of San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s. I wanted to talk about the AIDS crisis and the bravery I witnessed as a child, the story of medical marijuana moving from party drug to panacea, the transition from dealer to healer.”
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Interview: NPR’s Fresh Air
A ‘Home Baked’ Childhood: When The Family Business Is Marijuana Brownies
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NYT: A new and noteworthy audiobook
Recording the audiobook for HOME BAKED was a huge amount of work and a ton of fun! I’m thrilled to see that The New York Times thought I did it well. You can purchase a copy at Libro.fm or anywhere books are sold.
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