“In Los Angeles it’s hard to tell if you’re dealing with the real true illusion or the false one,” wrote the ultimate L.A. woman, Eve Babitz. Author Pico Iyer (Brigitte Lacombe)AdvertisementThe Festival of Books is different in part because it’s at least as festive as it is bookish — and the seats often aren’t so comfy. I’ve seen Oliver Stone hold forth on our political landscape and Jared Diamond talk about nearly everything in human existence. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)Community! That — or, rather, its seeming absence — lay at the heart of all our cheap jibes about Los Angeles from afar.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 09, 2020 17:03 UTC