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Ray Bradbury on Books, Technology and Culture

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Ray Bradbury is the author of dozens of stories and books, including The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit. His cautionary tale, Fahrenheit 451, which he wrote on a rented typewriter in the basement of the UCLA Library, is Mayor Jim Hahn's choice as this months' reading for all of Los Angeles. Bradbury began writing everyday when, at the age of 12, he fell in love with H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The prophetic storyteller is as busy and energetic today, at 81, as he ever was. Ray Bradbury muses about film, fiction and human nature - and what he's up to lately.
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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