Daniela Magaña April 16, 2023 Bookpacker Blogs Tobar's Twofer Daniela Magaña April 16, 2023 Bookpacker Blogs Daniela Magaña traces the trajectories of two characters in two countries across two time periods in Héctor Tobar’s ‘The Tattooed Soldier’.
Tina Per-Akopyan May 16, 2022 Bookpacker Blogs Piercing the Dream Tina Per-Akopyan May 16, 2022 Bookpacker Blogs Tina Per-Akopyan tests the limits of the L.A. Dream as she follows in the footsteps of James M. Cain’s eponymous heroine.
Tinna Flores December 9, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs West's Weird Hollywood Tinna Flores December 9, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Tinna Flores searches for the art behind the artifice in Nathanael West’s classic LA novel, ‘The Day of the Locust’.
Rachel Cope September 5, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Sins of the City Rachel Cope September 5, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Rachel Cope reexamines the mythos of L.A. through Nina Revoyr’s ‘Southland’.
Annie Nguyen August 24, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Isherwood in Isolation Annie Nguyen August 24, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs ‘A Single Man’ is the perfect novel for Lockdown L.A. - by Annie Nguyen
Claudia Ellis August 15, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Ellis on Ellis Claudia Ellis August 15, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs Claudia Ellis (no relation) stalks the Los Angeles of Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘Less Than Zero’…
Rachel Cope May 12, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs The Dead Still Center Rachel Cope May 12, 2020 Bookpacker Blogs In isolation in a time of Coronovirus, Rachel Cope revisits Didion’s Los Angeles - the ‘dead still center of the world’.
Juliette Bolea December 10, 2018 Bookpacker Blogs Canal Vision Juliette Bolea December 10, 2018 Bookpacker Blogs Venice, CA is the setting for Kate Braverman’s grunge classic ‘Lithium for Medea’
Elliott Arnold December 10, 2018 Bookpacker Blogs Going Postal Elliott Arnold December 10, 2018 Bookpacker Blogs Bookpacking Bukowski in the city he called home