What: The Legislature will honor the first comprehensive anthology of California literature, "The Literature of California, Volume I," at a reception hosted by Robert Hertzberg, speaker of the California State Assembly. When: 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23 Where: California State Capitol Building, The California Room (fourth floor). A reception follows 5-6:30 p.m. with book sales and signing in the second-floor rotunda. Visuals: Featuring anthology editors (Jack Hicks of the University of California, Davis, English department, and novelists James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston and Al Young) reading from and talking about the anthology. Special guest appearances by Jade Snow Wong (sole surviving author included in Volume I) and Gary Snyder, Pulitzer prize winning poet and UC Davis English professor. During the reception, artifacts relating to writers featured in Volume I will be on display in the rotunda. Background: "The Literature of California, Volume I," a new, annotated collection of California writing from Native American beginnings through 1945, has just been published by the University of California Press. Edited by UC Davis English faculty member Jack Hicks, and prominent state writers James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston and Al Young, the 633-page anthology was coordinated from UC Davis. "We wanted to make a sophisticated, fully inclusive 21st century gathering of the treasures of California literature on the state's sesquicentennial," lead editor Hicks notes, "for both the lay public and students and scholars -- from the Indian trickster Coyote down to Steinbeck's Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath." Volume II (from World War II to the present) is scheduled for publication in 2003. In compiling the anthology, the editors used 10 major libraries, employed numerous UC Davis undergraduates and graduate students, and enjoyed fiscal support from multiple campus sectors. Co-hosted by the UC Davis Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Humanities Institute and the Department of English and the California State Library Foundation. Directions and Parking: The State Capitol is bordered by 10th, 15th, N and L streets, all running in one direction. From the west, take Interstate 80 east toward Sacramento and take the 5th Street exit. Turn left onto 5th Street, turn right onto Q Street, turn left onto 10th Street and then to N Street. From the northeast, take the Capital City Freeway/ Business 80 south to the J Street exit, merge on to 29th Street and turn right on to L Street. From the east, take Interstate 50 west to Interstate 80 west to San Francisco. Continue to the 5th Street exit. Turn left onto 5th Street, turn right onto Q Street, turn left onto 10th Street and then to N Street. Besides street parking around the State Capitol, a parking facility is located on the east side of 10th Street between L and J streets.