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.
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The Vast Majority: The Night Is Still on Fire
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 — Rain Taxi
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…
How Today’s Uprisings Compare to the 1960s Rebellions
Jon Wiener discussed Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties with Robert Scheer on the Scheer Intelligence podcast on September 17, 2020. “The core of this book is a chronological narrative of Black and Latino [people] organizing in struggle. It’s a movement history that starts in 1960, when young Black people in L.A.…
I Hope Someday You’ll Join Us
In this conversation, Wiener explains why it’s so vital, particularly in 2020, to recover L.A.’s radical history, and explains the process behind communicating a complicated movement narrative to a broad audience. We also hear bits from Wiener’s incredible career as a writer and journalist, including his involvement with the groundbreaking progressive radio station KPFK, and…
Interview With an Author: Jon Wiener
Jon Wiener was interviewed by Librarian Daryl Maxwell for the Los Angeles Public Library blog about his writing process and his latest book co-authored with Mike Davis. You can read the whole interview here.
Op-Ed: How do you protest at a virtual Democratic convention?
Jon Wiener and Mike Davis published an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on the history and future of protests at the DNC. “With the Democratic National Convention meeting virtually this year, the fate of another longstanding political tradition is also in jeopardy.” Read the full op-ed here.
08/14/2020 — A Conversation on the 55th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, co-authors of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan and Danny Widener to discuss the upcoming 55th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Uprising hosted by Skylight Books. Know more about this event here. Please note: This event will…
08/13/2020 —Set the Night on Fire: LA in the 1960s
Listen to Harold Meyerson and Melina Abdullah in conversation with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising, as they discuss Los Angeles in the sixties as a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and its lessons for the social justice movements of today. Watch the recording here.
8/11/2020 — Writers Bloc Presents Mike Davis, Jon Wiener & Robin Kelley: Watts Rebellion
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener, authors of Set the Night on Fire L.A. in the Sixties, will be in a live conversation with Robin Kelley who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Note that August 11 is the…