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A stylized, toreador-Elvis look, full of bruised machismo and oversensitivity, bewildered surrender.
Bruce Benderson • The Romanian: Story of an Obsession
When I talked to Choi in 2014, he said he wanted to create a menu that represented the Koreatown he had known as a child—a place with Mexican lowriders and mixed-race couples.
Jay Caspian Kang • The Loneliest Americans
gauche caviar
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
Cho imagines the one thing that can never exist—the coming to consciousness and the joining in solidarity of the modern class of losers. Though his soft Asian face could only have been a hindrance to him, Cho did not perceive his pain as stemming from being Asian: he did not perceive himself in a world of identity politics, of groups and fragments
... See moren+1 • The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (Kindle Single) (Kindle Singles Book 4)
They were representatives of a folkloric tradition but also exponents of a sophisticated new city music that prided itself on its audacity and innovations.
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Several years ago, I met Julio Payes, a permanent resident from Guatemala
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
“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.
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Different. Weird. Out of sync.