Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles

“These essays are self-contained yet overlapping . . . . Each nimbly skips between memoir, history and literary and cinematic references to understand the ways L.A., makes and remakes itself.”—A Los Angeles Times Top Book Club Pick

In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a h...