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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2014. In February, I ran a series of posts by James Curtis about producer David Lewis. This isn’t a new book but I found it remarkably insightful. “The Creative...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Virtually everyone who writes about Raymond Chandler cites this book by Philip Durham, but very few people seem to have read it. Writing in 1963, four years...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is a repost from 2013. Whenever I’m asked about my favorite books on Los Angeles, my first recommendation is “Nuestro Pueblo,” a selection of features by Times artist Charles Owens and...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Virtually everyone who writes about Raymond Chandler cites this book by Philip Durham, but very few people seem to have read it. Writing in 1963, four years...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Gladwin Hill’s “Dancing Bear: An Inside Look at California Politics,” published in 1968, is a new addition to my annual holiday gift suggestions. I’m generally cool toward books on California politics...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2014. In February, I ran a series of posts by James Curtis about producer David Lewis. This isn’t a new book but I found it remarkably insightful. “The Creative...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2014. “The Los Angeles Book,” with text by Lee Shippey and photos by Max Yavno is one of my favorite books on Los Angeles – but only for Yavno’s photographs. The text...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
“Angel’s Flight” by Leo Politi. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Another of my favorite books about Los Angeles is Leo Politi’s “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Reminiscences of Bygone Days,” published...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide: ‘Making Black Los Angeles’
Note: This is an encore post from 2018. I only recommend books that I have read, which is why I haven’t listed Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book” or Stephen Gee’s “Los Angeles City Hall: An American...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is a repost from 2013. True style never goes out of date, after all. We are being bombarded by stories about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with videos of long lines at stores and the...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
This is an unusual suggestion (especially a “retro” suggestion) for the holidays: Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life by James Curtis won’t be available until February. But you can pre-order it, which...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is a repost from 2013. Whenever I’m asked about my favorite books on Los Angeles, my first recommendation is “Nuestro Pueblo,” a selection of features by Times artist Charles Owens and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Virtually everyone who writes about Raymond Chandler cites this book by Philip Durham, but very few people seem to have read it. Writing in 1963, four years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Gladwin Hill’s “Dancing Bear: An Inside Look at California Politics,” published in 1968, is a new addition to my annual holiday gift suggestions. I’m generally cool toward books on California politics...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2014. In February, I ran a series of posts by James Curtis about producer David Lewis. This isn’t a new book but I found it remarkably insightful. “The Creative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2014. “The Los Angeles Book,” with text by Lee Shippey and photos by Max Yavno is one of my favorite books on Los Angeles – but only for Yavno’s photographs. The text...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is a repost from 2013. True style never goes out of date, after all. We are being bombarded by stories about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with videos of long lines at stores and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
“Angel’s Flight” by Leo Politi. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Another of my favorite books about Los Angeles is Leo Politi’s “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Reminiscences of Bygone Days,” published...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2018. I only recommend books that I have read, which is why I haven’t listed Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book” or Stephen Gee’s “Los Angeles City Hall: An American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is a repost from 2013. True style never goes out of date, after all. We are being bombarded by stories about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with videos of long lines at stores and the...
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