I am publishing Forty Bucks and A Dream: Stories of Los Angeles here on Substack. New chapters drop Mondays. Below is the Table of Contents, with links to what’s posted before. If you like what you see, consider a subscription or one-time donation - N.R.
I keep wondering why 40 bucks rings a bell. Back in the day I would have been flush for the week-end. Today its what I pay the lawn guy every two weeks.
Thank you Nancy, I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this series. Your publishing this here is indeed literally Making More Pie.
About this chapter -- you sure wonder what happened to some of these people. And -- how did you get all these people to talk to you? And -- what is the rough time frame; I can make some guesses with the various references, but ...
Love this phrase: "people cart their dreams here, unpack them before the mirror that is Hollywood, and believe what is reflected back to be their destinies made manifest."
Can you write a bit about the "story behind the story", in particular the range of years over which this takes place; how much it's written as it was happening, and so on -- so about your process of doing this. I'll guess that maybe some of these come out of the writing you were doing professionally. I'm always interested in the process.
I keep wondering why 40 bucks rings a bell. Back in the day I would have been flush for the week-end. Today its what I pay the lawn guy every two weeks.
Thank you Nancy, I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this series. Your publishing this here is indeed literally Making More Pie.
About this chapter -- you sure wonder what happened to some of these people. And -- how did you get all these people to talk to you? And -- what is the rough time frame; I can make some guesses with the various references, but ...
Love this phrase: "people cart their dreams here, unpack them before the mirror that is Hollywood, and believe what is reflected back to be their destinies made manifest."
Can you write a bit about the "story behind the story", in particular the range of years over which this takes place; how much it's written as it was happening, and so on -- so about your process of doing this. I'll guess that maybe some of these come out of the writing you were doing professionally. I'm always interested in the process.
Thank you!