The 14 essential L.A. life stories, from Hollywood tell-alls to immigrant sagas, hard lives (Luis Rodriguez) and spectacular flameouts (Freeway Rick Ross).
Luis J. Rodriguez on his new book, ‘From Our Land to Our Land’; his experience as L.A. poet laureate, and the issues surrounding ‘American Dirt’Crime kingpin memoirs are mostly alike. The humble origin, the meteoric rise, the lavish excess and the contrition after the fall are recounted faithfully, with the result feeling — usually — like a Scorsese film without the wit or the sumptuous details.
’s “Revolutionary Suicide” or Eldridge Cleaver’s “Soul on Ice” — an essential piece of Los Angeles literature. — MS
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