A review by peterme
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
4.0
(3.5 stars)
Curious text. No one book will capture "Los Angeles." This one rests on the idea that L.A. is a "city-state," a quasi-independent domain. It traffics (ha!) in expected themes from a self-aware 2020s-era empathetic writer—inequality, racism, climate crisis, etc. You do wonder why so many people would live in L.A., given how miserable he makes the place seem.
Curious text. No one book will capture "Los Angeles." This one rests on the idea that L.A. is a "city-state," a quasi-independent domain. It traffics (ha!) in expected themes from a self-aware 2020s-era empathetic writer—inequality, racism, climate crisis, etc. You do wonder why so many people would live in L.A., given how miserable he makes the place seem.