America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the vanishing point of America's western drive. Not just a city. Los Angeles is best understood as a city-state. Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically-a small independent territory, a sovereign place, a city and surrounding regions bound together by population density and an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny. This is Los Angeles. Deeply researched and reported, provocatively argued, and eloquently sung, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now reveals the borders and probes the ecology of this Great American City-State, enumerates its cultural treasures and economic prowess, hails its heroes and charts its landmarks, plumbs its social and economic history, catalogs its canonical literature (from John Fante to Joan Didion to Mike Davis to Octavia Butler), probes its religions and spiritual practices, its languages and cuisines, and seeks the keys to its future. It is a protean, vibrant place-vastly more than its many, many parts. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.

A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of America's most confounding metropolis-not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state

About the Author
Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of You Lost Me There and Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down. He lives in Los Angeles, California.


Book Information
ISBN 9781250849199
Author Rosecrans Baldwin
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 248g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 19mm