IT’S BEEN a long stretch of silence around here. That’s mostly due to big deadline juggling and such but there is light at the end of the tunnel. (Stay tuned).
In the meantime, on top of a book deadline, I have been writing a bit about the city through the lens of a few books.
A few months I did a group essay/review of Gary Krist’s “Mirage Factory” and Shawn Levy’s history of the Chateau Marmot, “The Castle on Sunset” with a little side chat with Janet Fitch to round it out.
Both books take a deep look at the city’s history while also examining boosterism and grand promises that L.A. didn’t always keep.
Krist’s book looks at the origin stories of some of these myths, Levy’s the extension of them, and helps us understand why, to this day, we are still untangling truth from fable.
You can click here to read the piece up at LA Times books.
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