City of Quartz Book Club

We are reading City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis. On November 29th we will be discussing the Preface, Prologue and Chapter 1 “Sunshine or Noir"?”

Please join us Tuesday, November 29th at 7:30pm for wine, tea snacks, and general Q & A at the SIJCC

All are welcome— whether you are a book club regular, or this is your first time!

“A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias. 

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs L.A.’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.”

Support a local bookstore and buy City of Quartz at Skylight Books

If book costs are prohibitive, please email Eastsidejews@sijcc.com for a discounted or borrowed copy.

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