They say that journalism is the first draft of history. One can see a flaw behind that reality in the case of the flooding of the mountain town of Wrightwood this December. The news media is all over the latest disaster, with telling pictures: That’s from a solid LA Times story about what just happened,Continue reading “Wrightwood buried: New and Very Old News”
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Home versus the Mountain
One of the acknowledged great non-fiction pieces of our time is John McPhee’s Los Angeles Against the Mountains, from l988, an uncanny and alarming foreshadowing of the disaster in Montecito this month. It’s one of those astonishingly thorough and appalling pieces of writing, almost beyond journalismn, and to my mind can hardly be overpraised (butContinue reading “Home versus the Mountain”
Kit Stolz 