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Sitting down to talk with Malcolm is like settling into the shotgun seat of an old pickup truck. You know you're in for a ride. You're going to go places you've never been before, explore back roads and byways, stop in on some old friends, and sit and chat for a while. Getting out of the office and deep hanging out-Malcolm says that's his job as publisher of Heyday, which this year is celebrating forty years of publishing books on California. Looking back across four decades of Heyday's backlist and perusing each beautiful new catalog as it comes out every season-the catalogs themselves tell stories-the gifts that Malcolm Margolin has brought California overwhelm any attempt to contain them. A new book appears about every two weeks. As is his wont, Malcolm is moving on to find the next thing of beauty to bring back to Heyday and all of us. But before doing so, he sat down for a spell in Heyday's Berkeley offices with Boom editor Jon Christensen to talk about books, publishing, and his California. Jon Christensen: There will be a lot of people who will read this who haven't, amazingly, heard of Heyday and Malcolm Margolin. So what is Heyday? Tell me a little bit about its mission and its history. Malcolm Margolin: It wasn't deliberate. I didn't want to set up a publishing company. As I'm getting older, people are giving me credit for great vision, that forty years ago Margolin had a vision of a magnificent California publishing enterprise. He's worked hard, and he's fulfilled that vision. The vision that I had was wanting not to work for

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