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A rich banquet at the cutting edge of the arts, rooted in
California's eclectic cultural gumbo, by one of America's most
gifted critics, who died young in 2019. "A perfect journalistic
valediction from one of LA's finest commentators."-Richard Thompson
The late Scott Timberg championed artists earnestly and
relentlessly, with empathy and persistence. He was a vocal and
widely admired advocate for working artists, one of the first to
sound the alarm on the escalating economic challenges that have
faced creative workers in the twenty-first century. The twenty-six
reflections in this book form a valuable window onto many cultural
shifts that have upended the country's creative traditions and
expectations. They are, by turns, surprising, wide-ranging,
passionate, and fun. Timberg's perceptive and enthusiastic profiles
on the arts extend to West Coast jazz and Gustavo Dudamel's LA
Philharmonic, the fiction of Ray Bradbury and John Rechy, the early
films of Spike Jonze and Christopher Nolan, the comics of Los Bros
Hernandez and Adrian Tomine, and many more musicians, novelists,
filmmakers, architects, and impresarios. Timberg had a knack, as
Ted Gioia writes in his introduction, for "finding the best in the
cultural scene on the dream coast." This is an indispensable volume
that showcases the author's endless curiosity, as well as his
passion and love for California-especially that confounding and
complex metropolis Los Angeles.
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