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Saturday, April 13 • 10:00am - 11:00am
Los Angeles: The People and Places That Shaped A City - Conversation 1101 - REQUIRES TICKET

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Anyone who still believes that Los Angeles is a city without history hasn't been doing much reading lately. Join Lili Anolik, Tosh Berman, Lynell George and David Kipen for a discussion of the key figures and iconic locations that formed their most recent books and the rich history of the City of Angels.
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William Deverell

Deverell is professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous studies of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, including "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of... Read More →

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Lili Anolik

Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in Harper's, Esquire, and The Believer. She is the author of Hollywood's Eve and lives in New York City with her husband and two small sons.
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Tosh Berman

Tosh Berman is a writer, poet, and publisher of TamTam Books. As a publisher, he focused on post-war French figures such as Boris Vian, Guy Debord, Serge Gainsbourg and French gangster Jacques Mesrine, as well as publishing Sparks (Ron Mael & Russell Mael) and Lun*na Menoh. His previous... Read More →
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Lynell George

Lynell George is a journalist and essayist. "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame" is her first book of essays and photography, exploring the city where she grew up. She is also the author of "No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels," a collection of features... Read More →
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David Kipen

David Kipen founded the nonprofit Boyle Heights lending library Libros Schmibros in 2010. Former literature director of the National Endowment for the Arts, book editor/critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, and contributor to multiple volumes of California cultural history, Kipen... Read More →

Saturday April 13, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5
  California & The West

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