Newsletter: Essential California Week in Review: A year in homelessness

A look at California stories from the last week, including how homelessness became inescapable in 2019.

From the matchless Mary McNamara, the story of how more than 200 painted movie backdrops were saved from the studio dumpster.On the letters of Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and their circle, and the tangled subplots of art and life.Ten years ago, Folgers coffee first aired its now-infamous “Coming Home” ad.

If that doesn’t ring a bell, let me refresh your memory: It was the brother-sister “you’re my present this year” commercial that looked surprisingly like it was selling ... incest. A decade later, GQ has brought us the holiday present we didn’t know we needed — an oral history of how the ad came to be, according to the people who made it.More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs this year. These are some of their stories.

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