Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What makes LA wonderful and terrible simultaneously
Los Angeles is sprawling, yet constantly congested. Glamorous and gritty. Deeply diverse. And yet it can’t shake the stereotype that it’s a superficial, vapid, La La Land.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readLos Angeles is sprawling, yet constantly congested. Glamorous and gritty. Deeply diverse. And yet it can’t shake the stereotype that it’s a superficial, vapid, La La Land.
In a new book, editor David Kipen compiles what’s been written about LA, including the good and the bad from locals, transplants, visitors, historic figures and celebrities. The book is “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018.”
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Caitlin Plummer
producer
David Kipen
former director of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts; founder of Libros Schmibros Lending Library; writing lecturer at UCLA