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Title:   A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Participants:   Richard Rayner
In conversation with David L. Ulin, book editor, LA Times
Program Date:    7/8/2009
Program length:    1hr
Media Type:   MP3

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Podcast summary

Tabloid crimes, the Roaring 20's, and the onset of the Depression form the backdrop of Rayner's captivating tale of how the City of Angels lost its soul.


Participant(s) Bio

Richard Rayner is the author of Drake's Fortune, The Cloud Sketcher, The Associates, and several other books. His writing regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.

David L. Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."


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