Me, Myself, I: Idiosyncrasy and Structure in Nonfiction.
Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city and what embracing—or rejecting—an Angeleno identity has come to mean. In D. J. Waldie’s traverse of sprawling Los Angeles, he considers how the city’s image was constructed and how it has.D. J. (Donald) Waldie is an author, essayist, poet, translator, editor, and city administrator for the city of Lakewood, California. He is best known for his memoir, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir. Waldie is regarded as a thoughtful observer of Los Angeles' history, politics, and culture.In the novel “Holy Land” and the essay “An Ordinary Place”, both written by the same author, D.J. Waldie, have the same description about the suburb area during his childhood, but has different meaning and style of the writing. In the novel “Holy Land”, he talks about the 1940s when the suburb area was build. He said white men worked hard every day and built over five hundreds.
Compare and Contrast: Holy Land In the novel “Holy Land” and the essay “An Ordinary Place”, both written by the same author, D.J. Waldie, have the same description about the suburb area during his childhood, but has different meaning and style of the writing. In the novel “Holy Land”, he talks about the 1940s when the suburb area was build. He said white men worked hard every day.An example: I love Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, D. J. Waldie’s lyrical study of the Los Angeles suburb where he grew up and where he lives. But the book is so idiosyncratic in structure and material, I’ll never write anything like it. Waldie, known for shunning cars and walking to his day job, built his book to replicate the pattern of houses that make up his neighborhood. Reading the.
D. J. Waldie, Lakewood, California. 326 likes. D. J. Waldie is an American essayist, memoirist, translator, and editor who also is the former Deputy City Manager of.
