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.
Would local government be better if it were less local?
We don’t know much about the most important artifacts of our living here.
Who pushed back against the city’s supersized concessions to developers?
Mayor Villaraigosa breezed past transit issues in his State of the City speech.
I have a thing about wheels.
Clichés stumble forward, groaning lowly for reviewers’ brains, whenever clichés of Los Angeles are invoked.
Not many visitors make the short pilgrimage across Main Street to the Church of Our Lady of the Angels.
Can you acquire a sense of place at Facebook?
An L.A. cabinet of wonders
Predictably, it involves sex. And betrayal, murder, and glory.