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In collaboration with Diane Keaton, Waldie provided the text for two photographic explo.
Waldie is the author of the acclaimed Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and other books that illuminate the ordinary and the everyday in lyrical prose.
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Becoming Los Angeles is ultimately a book about learning how to fall in love with wherever it is you are.
Called a writer whose work is a gorgeous distillation of architectural and social history by the New York Times, whose essays and memoirs, said the Los Angeles Times, conjure the idiosyncratic splendor of Southern California life, D.
Becoming Los Angeles is a further account of how Waldie gained a Sense of place, which James Mustich, author of 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die, described as an almost sacramental act of attention.
There will always be romance in the idea of Los Angeles, but it requires renewed hope to sustain.
He asks, what do we talk about when we talk about Los Angeles today? In a global, cosmopolitan city, is there value in cultivating a local imagination? And he wonders how to describe a city that is denser and more polarized and challenged by climate change, homelessness, and economic disparity.
He maps on the contours of Los Angeles what embracing―or rejecting―an Angeleno identity has come to mean.
Becoming Los Angeles draws on a decade of Waldie\'s writing about the intersection of the city\'s history and its aspirations.
He measures the Place of nature in the city and the different ways that nature has been defined.
He encounters the immigrants and exiles, the dreamers and con artists, the celebrated and forgotten who became Los Angeles.
In his exploration of sprawling Los Angeles, he considers how the city\'s image was constructed and how it fostered willful amnesia about the city\'s conflicted past.
It\'s through sacred ordinariness that Waldie experiences the city\'s seasons.
Waldie\'s particular concern is commonPlace Los Angeles, whose rhythms of daily life are set against the gaudy backdrop of historical Myth and Hollywood illusion. - Susan Brenneman, Los Angeles Times Deputy Op-Ed EditorBecoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city.
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Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays.
Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D.
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