'Dear Los Angeles' Collects Nearly 5 Centuries Of Opinions About The City
A new book features snippets of diary entries and letters written between 1542 to 2018. Editor David Kipen says it's "a collective self-portrait of Los Angeles when it thought nobody was looking."
by Susan Stamberg
Feb 05, 2019
2 minutes
Love it, hate it, or just hate the traffic, everyone has an opinion about Los Angeles. A new literary olio gathers hundreds of those opinions together, in a book called Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018.
Editor David Kipen has
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