In advance of the 2023 L.A. Times Festival of Books, 95 writers compiled a list of essential “Los Angeles Books.” I reckon it’s a good, if not very surprising list — not that the number of surprises has anything to do with a list’s quality. There are a few books about Los Angeles that you might expect to see on the list that are not. I started working on a Los Angeles bibliography a couple of years ago and put it on hold because it was too daunting a task. by Ruben Salazar, 1970 Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz, 1977 Los Angeles: The Know-How City by Jan Morris, 1980 Holy Land by D.J. He is not interested in generating advertorials, cranking out clickbait, or laboring away in a listicle mill “for exposure.”Brightwell is currently writing a book about Los Angeles.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 12, 2023 05:08 UTC