Sublime

Apparently Perry recognized what many people in Los Angeles would learn in the years to come: the value of a man possessed.

Lucy understands the mindset of small towns, the mythology that a community weaves like cloth. A story repeated so many times that every local knows where to draw breath in the telling.

The New York of the thirties was very different from Paris: “not so much beauty and tradition as native fantasia emerging from accelerated greed.” Abbott’s book is aptly titled, for she is not so much memorializing the past as simply documenting ten years of the chronic self-destruct quality of American experience, in which even the recent past is

Around Los Angeles, sometimes human geography is difficult to comprehend, but you still feel it, like the edges of a ghost.