SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
Explore 1960s Los Angeles with Faculty Author Jon Wiener. He will be in a live conversation with UCSD historian Danny Widener, moderated by Julia Lupton of UCI English. This event is part of Illuminaries, UCI’s new series of Zoom book talks featuring UCI faculty and instructors. Register here.
Jacobin deputy editor and host of Jacobin Radio’s podcast The Vast Majority, Micah Uetricht speaks with Jon Wiener about some of the interesting events and stories that happened in Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, a book he co-authored with Mike Davis. Listen to the interview here.
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was reviewed in Rain Taxi by Paul Buhle. “Two veteran authors allow themselves vast detail to tell about us about the cradle of “counterculture,” in all the far-flung rebellious meanings of the term. It is also the story of L.A.’s contested racial space, with contradictions ranging…