Sublime

then mayor Dick Riordon got the 10 back on line after the Northridge quake a full three months ahead of schedule. He even issued curfews and no one gave a rat’s ass. They loved him.

“Here in Los Angeles the shape of the city is soft at the edges, piled layer on layer, cloud on cloud,” Charles Moore wrote in The City Observed, Los Angeles (1984). Gutierrez, from San Pedro, was a scientist professionally, but was perhaps better known as a climber of stairs.

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

The Generic City,”

Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠