D.J. Waldie
D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles," among other books about the social history of Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.
With a little patience, a stretch of anonymous nowhere can become a place.
Can you be someone's neighbor without sharing the burden of risk? D.J. Waldie considers the collective fears that bind our city together.
In his youth, D.J. Waldie's parents gave him many gifts. But there's one he'll always remember.
We’re not at home in America. And when we frame 'home' in terms of other places, how could we be?
The new archbishop of Los Angeles will have a long reach in America's Catholic Church. And we’ll know his name in a matter of weeks.
Unlike you or me, who can be so easily distracted, a chair is never less than itself.
Los Angeles, from the 1880s and well into the 1960s, wanted to show its residents how to live in the future. The result? A number of architectural mishaps.
It's raining. But why? The answers lies in the jet stream.
In the 20th century, aerospace was the summit of aspiration for many Californians. And we’re unsure, now that we’ve come down to earth, what will become of us.
The city has its own "deep time," remembering what many of us prefer to forget.
On the brink of another decade that will need kindness and cups enough to be endured, here’s to long times past.
The city seems to be going – although hesitatingly – to the zebras, and that could mean a safer city for walkers.