12 Books About Losing Perspective in Los Angeles

When writing about LA, people always assume you’re going to write about rich people at pools on the West Side. LA is not that. Los Angeles isn’t a stage set, and anyone who doesn’t know the difference hasn’t been in LA long enough or with enough hard-won intelligence. William Faulkner wrote, in Requiem for a Nun, that “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Los Angeles feels like that if that was about a city—LA is not even LA. Everything is still here, as a city it remains, but nothing holds still even while it’s happening, even once it’s over. 

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