Sex, Death and God in L.A.
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520086406 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 404 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best address the myths, define the truths, and interpret the media images of the second largest city in the U.S. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power in Movieland and yoga and seduction in Beverly Hills. Ranging from acute political commentary to evocative literary impressions, this is a collection that will engage not only those who live in southern California but all those curious about this megalopolis in the desert.. They report on the new Latino and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment of the West side; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; shuttered factories and thriving sweatshops; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; messiahs from Krishnamurti to L
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and ponders the internationalization of downtown as corporate raiders, Japanese megadevelopers and trans-national bankers restructure the economy. With the comparative advantages of Southern California fast disappearing, Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn predicts a long twilight for L.A. From Publishers Weekly Often as amorphous and sprawling as Los Angeles itself, these 11 essays, some of which have been previously published, blend reportage, politics, memoir and fantasy to gauge the temperature of the megalopolis, cool incubator of fashions, follies and the future. New Left