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    Gustavo Arellano: Mike Davis has terminal cancer. But his big worry is what is happening to our world

    LOS ANGELES — You can easily understand why Mike Davis might be glum. The Jeremiah of Southern California — the writer equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region's eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years. He recently decided to stop chemotherapy and is now at his San Diego home on palliative care. Doctors have given him months to live. The recent ...
    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2022 5 minutes
    Mike Davis, right, author of“ City of Quartz,” is seen with actor Viggo Mortensen in 2004..

    LOS ANGELES — You can easily understand why Mike Davis might be glum.

    The Jeremiah of Southern California — the writer equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region's eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.

    He recently decided to stop chemotherapy and is now at his San Diego home on palliative care. Doctors have given him months to live.

    The recent COVID-19 surge has slowed the torrent of activists and academics stopping by to say their goodbyes. He came out with a new book last year but now has to reject the multiple writing requests coming his way.

    I wasn't expecting a quick response when I emailed him asking for an interview — but he immediately replied.

    A Facebook post announcing his fate "gave many people the impression that I was imminently at death's door," he

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