The 26 best books about Los Angeles, ranked Los Angeles Times
Table Of Content Story How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: 110 essential Los Angeles books Themes and style VOTES: City of Quartz by Mike Davis, 1990 And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates… when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me… it’ll be just like coming home. Carroll’s novel after all revolves around the concept of madness, even if it’s through Alice’s childish eyes. My Joker, bent and whipped like a sapling in a breeze, was a damaged human being reacting to every shift in the zeitgeist, every change in the weather, by constructing a new personality in response. This made him a man of a million false fronts – as he was described by Bill Finger in a very early story. Story The lavish compound was designed in the Georgian Colonial-style by architects Julia Morgan and William Flannery and featured a three-story main house, three detached guest houses, servants' quarters, dog kennel...