Roaming and Reading: David Ulin's LA
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For this week's Roaming and Reading, LA Times Book Critic David Ulin guides us through books that tell the story of Los Angeles.
Some of his recommendations:
• "Murder on Bamboo Lane" by Naomi Hirahara
• "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch
• "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies" by Reyner Banham
• "Southern California: An Island on the Land" by Carey McWilliams
• "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain
• "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion
• "The History of Forgetting" by Norman Klein
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