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WE ARE NOW Notes from Los Angeles by D.J. Waldie Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles is the
second book by D.J. Waldie, one of the most gifted writers on the
American scene. As Patt Morrison notes in her foreword, “The suburb is
America’s lifeline and its punchline, and Waldie is its bard.” Few observers can present the facts of everyday life with the
texture and emotion of a symphony, the way Waldie does. A breathtaking
progression from his much-celebrated book Holy Land: A Suburban
Memoir, Where We Are Now is a compilation of
Waldie’s most intriguing recent works and an exploration of the meaning
of place in Los Angeles, long regarded as the most “placeless” of
American cities. Essays include:
D.J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land:
A Suburban Memoir and Real
City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out. His narratives about
life in Los Angeles have appeared in Buzz
Magazine, Kenyon Review,
the Massachusetts Review,
the Georgetown Review, Salon and dwell.
His book reviews and opinion pieces appear in the Los Angeles Times. He
is a contributing writer for Los
Angeles Magazine. D.J. Waldie lives a
not-quite-middle-class life in Lakewood, in the house his parents
bought in 1946. |
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