SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
Join Jon Wiener and Mike Davis as they discuss Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties on February 17, 2021, 3 P.M., during the CSUSB Pfau Library’s Conversations on Race and Policing via Zoom. This is a student-hosted panel discussion with students, faculty, staff, and campus guests of California State University San Bernardino.…
Arika Harrison featured Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties on the Princeton Alumni Weekly. “Beyond the protests, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener ’66 delve into the often forgotten on-the-ground struggles of rights movements as they happened. By combining their personal history as activists with archival research, interviews with key figures from the…
Each year, the editors of The Believer present awards to the works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry they find to be the best written and most underappreciated. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was longlisted for the Believer Book Award in Nonfiction. The short lists and winners will be announced online in the spring.…
Skylight Bookseller included Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties to their Top 10 Events of 2020 guide. Mike Davis, Jon Wiener, Erin Aubry Kaplan and Danny Widener had a conversation about the 55th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Uprising last August 15, 2020. Watch the full replay here.
Jeffrey St. Clair added Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties to his 25 Best Books of 2020. Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook…
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…
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.