I also want to thank Paddy Calistro and Scott McAuley of Angel City Press who have been kind enough, or maybe just optimistic enough, to publish two of my books: Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles in 2005 and, of course, what we're talking about this evening, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory and a Sense of Place in 2020. Waldie: My thanks particularly to the members of the Planning History Group and, of course, to Ken, Mark, and the other organizers of this evening's conversation and all of you who are attending this evening. We're here tonight to discuss his latest book, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place.ĭ.J. We're pleased to have him in his home domain and being able to share his thoughts with all of you. In fact, he is coming to us tonight live from the City of Lakewood. He rose to become Lakewood Deputy City Manager. He lives in the home where he was born, in Lakewood, California, which he described so poetically in Holy Land. He's written other books on Southern California, as well as been a contributor to many publications including Canyon Review, Salon, Los Angeles Magazine, book reviews, and commentaries in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. I first became aware of his work in the mid 1990s with his book Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. Waldie, whose “essays and memoirs conjure the idiosyncratic splendor of Southern California life,” per the Los Angeles Times. Ken Bernstein: I think there really is no more keen observer of life in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles region than D.J.
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