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Books of Pictures & Pictures of Books
Museums have an origami-like relationship with time because visitors can fold together different eras while navigating the galleries. Read more
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Fading Sunset Strip
The Strip is almost gone, almost. Read more
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How To Break Money
How To Break Money is the opposite of a get rich quick story, and it’s not a how-to, per se. I’m not giving you instructions, I’m giving you eight stories,… Read more
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The Cabin Notebook
It’s about the time I spent the winter in a cabin, in the mountains of Arizona, because I thought I was going to write a novel. Something else happened that… Read more
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Clusters of Eden
I translated an infamous nineteenth century origin myth for the twenty first century. Read more
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The Old Menus of New Chinatown
Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide. Read more
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The American Road Trip is Older than the American Road
Join my tour with curator Peter Blodgett through a collection of travel journals that visually document early road trips of the American West. Read more
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Bay of Smokes
Smog first came to Los Angeles suddenly, like a stranded hitchhiker. It was July 8th, 1943, and we were at war… Read more