Los Angeles is as much concept as city, set in a desert that flows to the sea; that ends in the sand where an ocean begins whose horizon recedes in the sunset; a city where émigrés and the children of immigrants have come to make their dreams come true. It is a mix of the sublime and the obvious, of the new and the nouveau, of the selfless and the selfish. It is as delicate as the quality of the light, the air and the surf; and as ephemeral. It is about the outdoors and about what happens behind closed doors. Life is lived in LA in a garden of unlimited potential, a crap game where people believe that, at any moment, one well placed bet can change your life. Tommywood covers this waterfront, filtering the landscape through a very personal lens.
Writing Tommywood has allowed me to explore the city I live in and become more engaged and involved in the intellectual and dream life here. Writing Tommywood has made my life all the richer; I hope reading this volume does the same for you.
Josh Kuhn, Arshile Gorky, Joshua Bell, What We Say When We Talk about Mel Gibson, Tony Curtis, Winston, Churchill’s Walk With Destiny, Bill Link Solves the Mystery of Columbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Brooks, Dylan turns 70. How L.A. Grew its own Art, Wendy Wasserstein, Mark Danielewski, Wallace Berman, Weegee in Hollywood, the Klezmatics, Demjanjuk’s Just Epitaph, Jonathan Foer, Culture with a Side of Popcorn, Gutav Klimt, Channa Horwitz, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler’s Vienna, Rita, Mattress King Larry Miller, Lincoln the First Jewish President, Voices and Visions, Arnold Schwartzman, Jon Robin Baitz.
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