Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers.
MANCHESTER — Look in the great Oxford English Dictionary and you will find: Book, booky, bookways, bookwise, and even bocspell — a history or narrative. You will not find booktopia,
New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.