Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin (2015-10-06)

We recorded our podcast about a week ago, and I'm still thinking about this book. Sidewalking isn't about Los Angeles or urban planning or walking - though it is about all those things - it's about how you come to terms with the place you love. For David Ulin, an Angeleno by choice, it meant walking, serendipity, reading, interrogating how the city is its own place and how it's every city. I read this too quickly, too dazzled by the writing to fully appreciate it.

I recommend this book - to savor and discover your own sense of wonder in the place you live. For Angelenos beware this might not be a city you recognize - it shouldn't be. We aren't all @latimes book critics who can have long interviews with Michael Govan from @lacma. So it might not be my LA, but Ulin's story is so LA. This book will stay with me, circling there in the recesses of my brain.

Highly recommended. And if you're interested our #podcast #bookclub is available on #iTunes #GooglePlay #soundcloud, just search "USC Bedrosian" and it'll be the Oct 2016 episode. A big thanks to Liz Falletta, Chris Redfearn, and Raphael Bostic for a lovely conversation.

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