By Lionel Rolfe
The new quantity is a sequence of essays fascinated about the Bohemian lifestyles and literature of California. It tells approximately musicians and actors, writers and poets, but in addition politics, philosophy, urban making plans, and the ugliness of humans towards animals—everything from elephants to birds.
Here you will discover keyboard pioneer George Duke, Yoga instructor Indra Devi, death Sierra glaciers, the espresso condominium scene of the 60s in Venice, exertions organizing, Echo Park bohemians, the decline of the la occasions, the once-famous L.A. loose Press, and different issues of significant import. Rolfe additionally squarely faces his personal left wing politics, and admits it hasn’t replaced him throughout the many years of his lifestyles. on the finish, he returns to our brutal remedy of the animal world—“Are we actually the neatest Creatures on Earth.”
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