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Laura Gabbert: Jonathan Gold's 1992 piece on the LA Riots

“From the stoop of my building, it seemed like a giant block party,” Gold wrote in 1992, just a week after the Los Angeles Riots. “City of Gold” filmmaker Laura Gabbert shares what this piece meant to her.

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By Jonathan Gold (1960-2018) • Aug 3, 2018 • 3m Listen

“City of Gold” documentarian Laura Gabbertdiscusses her favorite piece of Jonathan Gold’s writing: his meditation on the Los Angeles riots in 1992, titled “A Neighborhood Just West of Downtown.”

Documentarian Laura Gabbert spent five years trailing Pulitzer Prize-winning.

Credit: Laura Gabbert.

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    Jonathan Gold (1960-2018)

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