SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was added to the Los Angeles Times’ Top 10 Best Books of 2020 by David Ulin. “For all the horrors of this year, it has been a great one for California writing. Here are 10 favorite books that have changed or expanded the ways I think…
Calum Barnes featured Set The Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties on Morning Star’s Best of 2020: Books. “While it was easy to embrace the isolation and indulge in the doomsday atmosphere, the moment offered pause to return to histories of collective action that could provide succour for future struggles. Mike Davis and Jon…
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was featured in LAist’s 2020 Gift Guide. “We reached out to Stories Books and Cafe‘s super knowledgeable staff for a list of L.A.-based authors who dazzled them with new releases this year. An indie eastside treasure, Stories has a cafe full of tasty treats and lots of…
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was added to L.A. Taco’s 2020 Book Guide. “This book list centers around Los Angeles and overlaps with creative nonfiction, poetry, urbanism, California history, music, and cultural studies. What follows are 32 books in alphabetical order by author—for the 32 years, it’s been since the Dodgers…
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was included in a reading recommendation in the Los Angeles Times by Gustavo Arellano. “One of the few good things Southern California saw in 2020 was a bounty of history books on the region. The ones I’m going to recommend all hit issues — protests, politics,…
Alex Ross shared that “Jon Wiener and Mike Davis’s ‘Set the Night on Fire’ is a revelatory history of Los Angeles in the 1960s, undermining pervasive media myths of the era” on the Wall Street Journal. Read more about it here.