Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they didn't predict this week
Briefly

"Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes grimly familiar pathways down the canyons and into the subdivisions."
"Even our reflections take on that grim familiarity: we cite Joan Didion citing Nathanael West. We fall in with the great writers of this great city who are always so ready to judge it."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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