D. J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land, which received the California Book Award for nonfiction in 1996, Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, and coauthor of Real City: Downtown Los Angles Inside/Out. He is a regular contributor to Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and others.
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Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In 'quick, translucent prose' (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recounts growing up in Lakewood, California, a proto... SEE MORE