IT’S ONE OF those unspoken “dirty little secrets” of American life: a fascination with your city’s past is often born of disgust with that city’s not-so-charming present. Dipping into David Kipen’s Dear Los Angeles: The City In Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018, you will of course feel pangs of yearning and nostalgia when you’re […]
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