A Literary Guide to Los Angeles

I noticed recently that 20% of my Substack readers are in California. So I pestered Michelle Dean to write a literary guide to LA.

I first knew Michelle as a hard-working book critic in New York City. (Vaguely, I’ve always known that she had a career as a hard-working lawyer before that.) She wrote a book called Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion about the heyday of elbowed literary figures in New York.