His book reviews and commentary have appeared in Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Waldie’s narratives about suburban life have appeared in Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Georgetown Review, Salon, dwell, Los Angeles magazine, Spiritus, Gulf Coast, Urbanisme, Bauwelt, and other publications. California Romantica became a Los Angeles Times nonfiction bestseller in 2007.ĭ.J. In collaboration with Diane Keaton, Waldie provided the text for two photographic explorations of home: California Romantica (Rizzoli, 2007), dealing with homes in the Spanish Colonial Revival style of the early twentieth century, and House (Rizzoli, 2012), examining post-modern interpretations of domesticity. No Circus (Damiani, 2016), a collaboration with photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger, considers the phenomenology of houses tented for fumigation.

Paul Getty Museum, 2004) is a meditation on the American snapshot and its place in the narratives of everyday lives. Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles (Angel City Press, 2004) collected a decade of Waldie’s essays and observations about the city’s rapid evolution. Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out (Angel City Press, 2001), a collaboration with photographer Marissa Roth, observed downtown Los Angeles as it transitioned to its newest incarnation.

Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (Norton, 1996 revised edition, 2005) explored the intersection of personality and place in Lakewood, California. He has published five non-fiction books, each dealing with different aspects of everyday life. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times and formerly a contributing writer for Los Angeles magazine. Waldie is a cultural historian, memoirist, and translator. At book events over the years, you may have noticed Angel City Press.Īngel City Press has done its best to focus resources and energy.ĭ.J.

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