Rosecrans Baldwin

A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of America’s most confounding metropolis—not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. Not just a city. Los Angeles is best understood as a city-state. Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically—a small independent territory, a sovereign place, a city and surrounding regions bound together by population density and an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny. This is Los Angeles. Deeply researched and reported, provocatively argued, and eloquently sung, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now reveals the borders and probes the ecology of this Great American City-State, enumerates its cultural treasures and economic prowess, hails its heroes and charts its landmarks, plumbs its social and economic history, catalogs its canonical literature (from John Fante to Joan Didion to Mike Davis to Octavia Butler), probes its religions and spiritual practices, its languages and cuisines, and seeks the keys to its future. It is a protean, vibrant place—vastly more than its many, many parts. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.

Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Everything Now

An account of a Francophile's haphazard relocation to Paris in spite of his lack of French fluency describes how the region considerably differed from his expectations and the ways in which he tapped his American optimism to overcome cultural challenges. By the author of You Lost Me There. 40,000 first printing.

Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

A first novel by the New York Times blogger for "The Digital Ramble" finds Alzheimer's researcher Dr. Victor Aaron cherishing memories of his idyllic marriage to his late wife and suffering doubts about his carefully organized life and beliefs about memory when he discovers his wife's contradictory notes.

You Lost Me There

"When a family tragedy goes viral, a young girl grapples with how to control her public persona just as she's coming to terms with her private self"--

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