Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
8 best books like Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (David L. Ulin): Hallucinations, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, The White Album, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, The Loved One, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0307957241 |
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374521727 |
My mother was a freshman in college when I was a freshman in high school. Married at seventeen, her 1960s and 70s were spent as a young wife and mother of four. It wasn't until she divorced at thirty-six, the same year Ronald Reagan ushered in the folly of trickle-down economics and the prison-industrial...
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
| Author | Emily Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0525508961 |
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...
| Author | Joan Didion |
| ISBN | 0374522219 |
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference,...
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
| Author | Jeff Speck |
| ISBN | 0374285810 |
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0141184248 |
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the...
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
| Author | Elaine Welteroth |
| ISBN | 0525561587 |
“Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever-unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self-doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough.”
—Yara...
