
Norton & Company, 1995) is Waldie’s account of growing up in the 1950s in Lakewood, then California’s largest planned suburb. This appearance is free and open to the public.ĭavid Ulin, book critic of the Los Angeles Times, called Waldie “one of the writers responsible for developing a Southern California aesthetic in which what’s most vivid about the place is everything we might take for granted somewhere else.” “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir” (W. Author of the acclaimed biography “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” Waldie will read from the book and sign copies, which will be available for purchase at the event.


Carleton College will host an appearance by California author D.J.
