6/23/2023 0 Comments Michael connelly book the poet![]() ![]() ![]() Her new book is Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter. Southern California–based writer Katharine Coldiron has written two sharp-eyed pieces of cultural criticism for us, one centered on Rebecca Solnit’s nonfiction book about disasters, A Paradise Built in Hell, and the other on Michael Connelly’s crime novel The Dark Hours. Curious how a heterogeneous landscape, incapable of being within any single set of sentences, influences conversations about the Golden State that take place not only here in our mountains and deserts and suburbs and cities but around the world, I asked five contributors-with books of their own out this year-what their favorite California literary institution is. The CBC’s contributors see the selected books and, perhaps by extension, the fluctuations of a stunningly various state through different lenses as well. As readers, we come to the work’s sentences, its screenplay form, and interpret them with our own perceptions of the neighborhood. ![]() Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown, June’s California Book Club pick, for instance, takes us into an environment some of us know but reveals it to us anew. Like spaces in the real world, the place that a book’s sentences generate can be refracted through many lenses. ![]()
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