Exploring L.A.´s big issues through its intimate stories
(LA Times Clippers)

When I first came to Los Angeles 22 years ago, I thought it would be a temporary gig. I was the West Coast national writer for an East Coast newspaper, and I arrived with a New Yorker´s standard suitcase-full of cliched notions about my new home. I was expecting it to be shallow and crass. I was...