This week's five best book events are all about the best coast

This week's book events are fully locavore: Lynell George's essays on the city's rich cultural tapestry; Erin Khar's memoir of teen addiction in the mid-1980s; Thomas Pynchon's Cali counterculture noir; a debut novel from Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz; and a visit from Pod Save America to postmortem the first Super Tuesday to include California in many years. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-28 19:52:47 UTC ]

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