and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now. They were stories then for displaced Okies and Arkies, Jews who knew the pain of exclusion, Catholics who thought they did, and anyone white with a steady job. : Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (9780393327281) by Waldie, D. Scroll down for downloadable versions, and subscribe to 's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir 1 likes Like Where I live is one of the places where suburban stories were first mass-produced. Topics include: Why contract cities pinch every penny the effects of a recession on suburbia and why residents are leaving California.Ĭamera by Paul Detrick, Alex Manning and Tracy Oppenheimer. This book is a remarkable paradox: One of the quirkiest, most original. Waldie is also the author of the book Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, blogs at and is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times. Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. Some grand news for my first book (Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir 1995) and my newest (Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place 2020). The film rights to Holy Land were bought in late 2010 by actor James Franco for a possible movie. For 34 years, Waldie served as the Public Information Officer for the city of Lakewood and still lives in the house he grew up in.

Waldie sat down with Reason Magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch, who also grew up in Lakewood, to talk about city planning and the unique issues affecting suburbia in 2011. Waldie who is most famous for writing Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, set in 1950s Lakewood, California. 'Lakewood is not really a suburb anymore, it's a particular kind of urban place that looks suburban superficially but which is netted fully in an urban fabric,' says author D.J.

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