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BY MARC PORTER ZASADA
BEST RECENT COMMENTARIES
ON MODERN LIFE IN L.A. & BEYOND
2010:
It's Going to Be Okay
Hints That the Universe Cares
Holidays 2009: Guaranteed Gifting
Holidays 2009: Getting it Right
2012: Another Big Finish
Obsession: Japanese-Style
Happy in Your Work
The Arrow of Logic
The Mathematics of Beauty
City Noir (First
Concert by Dudamel)
Figuring It All Out
Heading Home
Back to
Nature
Housewife Uncertainty Principle
Dogmatism
(About Dogs)
Freedom
(About Freeways)
Pixie Dust
(About Michael Jackson)
Sudden Kinship
Hollywood
Epistemology
Corresponding Affections
Just Don't Do It
Looking for Optimism
Keeping the Affection Alive
The Post-Economy Life
Art & The Urban Man, Part I
Art & The Urban Man, Part
II
Getting Real
The Necessary Bureaucracy
The Tree of
Numbers
Last View of Atlantis
The New World
Standing at the Edge, Part II
Standing at
the Edge, Part I
Predicting the Motion of the Sea
You Just Have to Believe
High Flyers
Heaps of Cities
I'm Just Like You
The Dark Desire
Superheroes
An Unwelcome
Revelation
The Circle of Life
Public Displays of Affection
Palace of Distraction
Spring Flu
An Unwelcome Revelation
Figuring the
Value-Add
Wild Thing
The
Serengeti
of Expectations
The Real Thing
My Old Friend Marcus Martialis
Little
Paper Masks
Predictions for L.A. in 2008
Like an
Unexpected Thing
Superior Gifting Moments, Part I
Superior Gifting Moments, Part II
Wisdom
Enough
Clarity of
Intention
The Dream of Open Space, Part I
Traces Left Behind
The Calm Above the Storm
An Ugly New Word
The Power of Intention
Fireworks for the Nation-State
Ten Minutes of Summer
Masters of the Unnecessary Part I
Masters of the Unnecessary Part II
Envy, Part I
Envy, Part II
The Elegance of the Futile
The Joy of Poor Circulation
Orcs in Distant Cubicles
An Alphabet of Freedom
Those Annoying Paradigm Shifts
Honest Ambition
Smoking Magritte's Pipe
Last Days of Costco
An Out-of-Town Romance
Innocence
Sophistication
Not Planning the Future (or Futurama)
But Here Are My
Predictions for L.A. in 2007
Hints & Metaphors
Things Weighty & Trivial
Pheromones at the Auto Show
Glory Days
Flipping Real Estate on First Street
Smart Bombing the Body Politic
In Search of the Empty Costume
Choosing Just One
Entirely New Visions
Sharpness of Mind
Bulking Up at the Ballpark
The Price of Wonder
How to Have a Midlife Crisis
The Melting Pot Test
Public Beauty, Part I
Public Beauty, Part II
Public Beauty, Part III
Public Beauty, Part IV
The Moral of the Story, Part I
The Moral of the Story, Part II
Globalization, Live & In Person
Into the Machine
Life in the Alpha State
The Trouble With Fate
Just One Little Thought
An Attempted Valentine
Conjuring a City Part I: Downtown L.A.
Conjuring a City Part II: Large Concrete Plazas
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Review: Achim Freyer and the
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Review:
Waiting for Godot at "A Noise
Within," Jan. 15, 2009. Sat., May 31, 2008, the
Jazz Bakery,
1-4 p.m., 3233 Helms Blvd., Culver City. Spoken word performances with
jazz guitarist Perry Smith. Part of Artwalk Culver City. Sunday, April 27, 2008
2:30 p.m. at the
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Panel Member: "Laughing Between the Lines" Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008
Book
Soup in Hollywood, signing "The Urban Man: Staying Human in
L.A."
Nov. 1, launching a Collection of Classic Essays: "The Urban Man:
Staying Human in L.A."
Click for Details. Friday, Oct.26, 2007
AIA-LA
Open Space Summit, Moderating Panel: "The Special Problem of L.A. Tuesday,
Oct. 31., 2006 KCRW's
Politics of Culture on the rebirth of the Griffith Observatory.
Sunday, Aug. 28., 2006 Interview on "Dad at Work"
radio program about my upcoming book,
"The Return of Fatherhood." now renamed to "Reclaiming
Fatherhood."
Sunday, Aug. 13., 2006 L.A. Times
Book Review of Amy Wilentz's new book, "I Feel
Earthquakes Even When They Don't Happen."
Monday, Aug 21.: BBC World Service:
Interview on "Culture Shock" about intellectual property. You
can read my recent essay on the subject at
Whose Idea Is It Anyway? L.A. Times Sunday Calendar, July 23, 2006 Contact:
Along
with his continuing work as L.A.'s "Urban Man" columnist on
KCRW radio and www.KCRW.com, Marc
Porter Zasada's fiction and essays have appeared in
The Antioch
Review, NPR's "All Things Considered," The Los Angeles
Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, BBC World
Service and many
other venues. He served as the Editor of "Title Pages"
at the Palo Alto Weekly and the Managing
Editor of the Los Angeles Downtown News for many years. In
addition to his work in journalism and fiction, Marc co-founded and helped manage a major technology company
from 1990 to 2001, and has worked as a globalization services
consultant. He now works as a marketing consultant, editor and writer in Los
Angeles. Marc graduated from Stanford
University in 1979.
University in
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Great L.A. History - Carey McWilliams
Superb Calif Histories
by Kevin Starr
David
Ulin's Anthology
Ask the Dust
City of Quartz
In Danger-Lummis
Raymond Chandler
Other interesting
books about L.A.
What are your favorite L.A. books? Send me mail at "marc" @
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