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The White Album

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Featuring Raphael BosticSherry Bebitch JeffeMartin Krieger, and David Sloane In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Joan Didon’s book of essays about history and politics, The White Album. Published in 1979, these essays reflect a time of change here in California and America as a whole. If as she writes in the opening line, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Do we still live by these stories she told? Or is the world a different place now? Follow our discussants on Twitter! Raphael, Sherry, and David To listen to the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast discussion of The White Album, click the orange arrow in the Soundcloud player above. Or you can download it and subscribe through Soundcloud or iTunes! The White Album podcast transcription

Next month . . .

We’re going local, with a look at Benjamin Barber’s treatise on how cities are best suited to the new global economy in the book If Mayors Ruled the World.
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Links:

Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Martin Amis’ review of The White Album,Joan Didion’s Style” in the London Review of Books Stephanie Frank, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dissertation: The film industry and urban development in metropolitan Los Angeles, 1920–1975 LA School Forest Lawn Doyle McManus’ piece in the LA Times: “‘Selma’ and why, half a century later, we’re still struggling with the 1960sMartin’s images of industrial LA – more of Martin’s photography projects here Erhard Seminars Training (EST) All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis Daniel Burnham The Folklore of the Freeway by Eric Avila The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson Limerick This podcast was produced by Jonathan Schwartz and Aubrey Hicks. Please follow the Bedrosian Center on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

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