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Jan 06, 2009 Hillary rated it it was ok
Like all essay collections, some hits and some misses. i picked it up for some inspiration for the ESL group (that my senior librarian would like to rename "Culture Club" of all things) i'm helping to lead at the library. but also found some essays that spoke to my need to understand myself as an Angeleno or in some current context. some of the essays that stood out include: Judith Lewis's "Interesting Times", Luis Alfaro's "Minnie Ripertson SAved My Life", Erik Himmelsbach's "Fried Chicken", Ri Like all essay collections, some hits and some misses. i picked it up for some inspiration for the ESL group (that my senior librarian would like to rename "Culture Club" of all things) i'm helping to lead at the library. but also found some essays that spoke to my need to understand myself as an Angeleno or in some current context. some of the essays that stood out include: Judith Lewis's "Interesting Times", Luis Alfaro's "Minnie Ripertson SAved My Life", Erik Himmelsbach's "Fried Chicken", Richard Rayner's account of the 1992 L.A. Riots "Los Angeles" and one poem, Gerald Locklin's awesome "Fascist Island" about that consumer mecca in Orange County, Fashion Island. ...more
May 20, 2014 Alice rated it it was amazing
(Almost) everything I know about Los Angeles, I learned from David Ulin's anthology, Another City: Writing from Los Angeles. Highly recommend this collection of essays, short stories and poems by
familiar and not-so-familar writers. David Ulin, book critic, and former book editor of the Los Angeles Times, and a New York transplant like myself, must have come to understand as well as come to terms with this side of the country by putting this extraordinary compilation of works together. The piec David Ulin, book critic, and former book editor of the Los Angeles Times, and a New York transplant like myself, must have come to understand as well as come to terms with this side of the country by putting this extraordinary compilation of works together. The pieces cover every aspect of Los Angeles life from the 1800s to the present from ocean to desert, show-biz, race riots, souped up cars, The
Beach Boys, earthquakes, and everyplace in between.
Highly recommend!
like most compilations, some of this is very good, and the rest could have been written by anyone in their first college composition course.
Feb 02, 2008 Erika rated it it was amazing
Great anthology by a bunch of great LA writers, and I don't just say that because I'm one of them! Great anthology by a bunch of great LA writers, and I don't just say that because I'm one of them! ...more
David L. Ulin is book critic, and former book editor, of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, Labyrinth, and The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, selected as a best book of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the editor of three antholo He is also the editor of three anthologies: Another City: Writing from
Los Angeles, Cape Cod Noir, and the Library of America's Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a 2002 California Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Black Clock, Columbia Journalism Review, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Ulin teaches at USC, and in the low residency MFA in creative writing program at the University of California, Riverside’s Palm Desert
Graduate Center. In 2010, he was awarded a Southern California Independent Booksellers Association/Glenn Goldman Book Award for his work on Los Angeles: Portrait of a City.
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