D.J. Waldie discusses & signs Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire 2025EXPIRED
published: 18 Sep 2025, 2 min read, 'EVENT EXPIRED'
when: 17 Sep 2025 | venue: Vroman's Bookstore | address: 695 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena 91101A purchase of the book from Vroman's is greatly appreciated and makes events like this possible.
In Elements of Los Angeles: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie continues his singular meditation on Los Angeles: a place of contradictions, dreams, and disquiet. With uncommon clarity and emotional depth, Waldie considers Los Angeles as a place of both promise and disillusionment, of civic memory and strategic forgetting, of natural beauty and environmental fragility. Each of the four classical elements forms the basis for a profound and poetic reassessment of the city's image, exploring topics as diverse and resonant as the unlikely history of the Hass avocado, the St. Francis Dam disaster, an endurance contest that saw a young woman buried alive, and the sound of Vin Scully's voice carried across the summer air.
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