The Streets of Los Angeles
Video Showcase on "The Streets of Los Angeles: a Brief Look at the People Behind the Street Names" by Elisabeth L. Uyeda | December 2018 Pio de Jesus Pico is today remembered as the last governor of Alta California, during the time when the region was a part of Mexico. (Photo: Los Angeles Revisited ) Los Angeles did not just happen. It was built by real people - and they were as diverse as today's populace. Combining a blend of historic photographs from the Seaver Center for Western History Research along with contemporary images, the following video is ... [Read More]
Bookstories Podcast Interview with Darryl Holter
Bookstories Podcast Interview with Darryl Holter Bookstories by Alternate Thursdays on Apple Podcasts A podcast about the business and culture of bookselling in the 21st century. Episode 11: Chevalier's Books / Daryl Holter Released Jun 28, 2018 A wide-ranging conversation with Daryl Holter, co-owner of Chevalier's Books in the Larchmont neighborhood of Los Angeles. www.bookstories.show/ iTunes / Apple Podcasts link Here Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of Bookstories by Alternate Thursdays for free. ¤ Darryl Holter is a historian, entrepreneur, musician, and owner of an independent bookstore. He has taught history at the University of Wisconsin and ... [Read More]
Chevalier’s Offers Selection of Books from “S***hole Countries”
Chevalier’s Offers Selection of Books from “S***hole Countries” Patricia Lombard | www.larchmontbuzz.com You may have noticed a new selection of books in the window at Chevalier’s Books on Larchmont Blvd. “I just woke up that morning and thought we had to do something,” Liz Newstat, manager at Chevalier’s, told the Buzz. “Our owners, (Bert Deixler and Daryl Holter) had a similar idea, so we put together a selection of books from authors from Haiti, Africa and El Salvador.” Newstat said the reaction to the window, which was also posted on social media, has been great. “Everyone has been very positive,” ... [Read More]
Grown-Up Anger Darryl Holter Book Review
“I’ll Take You to a Place Called Italian Hall”: On Daniel Wolff’s “Grown-Up Anger” and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 Darryl Holter Book Review Darryl Holter Book Review | Los Angeles Review of Books A LABOR STRIKE and a heart-wrenching tragedy in 1913, Woody Guthrie at a hootenanny in a New York basement in 1945, and Bob Dylan in a recording studio in 1962 — these three seemingly unrelated events provide the framework for Daniel Wolff’s study of industrial violence in the United States, the folk music revival, and the evolution of rock ’n’ roll. Wolff’s narrative is an angry ... [Read More]
UnSilent Cinema with Julia Holter
Julia Holter scoring The Passion of Joan of Arc (WORLD PREMIERE) September 29, 2017: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM UnSilent Cinema UnSilent Cinema: Classic silent films brought to life by contemporary live scores. In a two-night production, the not-so-silent silver screen is returning to downtown Los Angeles to excite the senses at UnSilent Cinema. The outdoor event will take over downtown Los Angeles’s premier shopping and dining destination, FIGat7th, to showcase classic silent films brought to life by contemporary live scores. Screening on Friday, September 29, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer) will be ... [Read More]
From 30 Rock to Capitol Hill: On “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate”
From 30 Rock to Capitol Hill: On “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” Book Review by Darryl Holter Darryl Holter | Los Angeles Review of Books I NEVER READ BOOKS written by politicians. No, let me take that back. I read Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy in junior high. And in 1987 I met with Illinois Senator Paul Simon, an early candidate for the 1988 presidential race, and he gave me a very readable yet wonky little book called Let’s Put America Back to Work, chock-full of good ideas that, like Simon’s campaign, never saw the light of ... [Read More]
Loyalty Down: Rick Wartzman Interviewed by Darryl Holter
Loyalty Down: Rick Wartzman Discusses How Business Leaders Betrayed the American Workforce Rick Wartzman Interviewed by Darryl Holter Darryl Holter | Capital & Main The premise of Rick Wartzman’s new book is a provocative one—that the long, painful decline of the American middle class can be traced in large part to business leaders’ betrayal of their own workers. In The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America, Wartzman explores his thesis through the lens of four iconic U.S. companies: General Motors, General Electric, Kodak and Coca-Cola. But Wartzman, a contributor to Fortune, the former business ... [Read More]
A Test of American Traditions: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny”
A Test of American Traditions: Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” Book Review by Darryl Holter Darryl Holter | Los Angeles Review of Books AS AN OWNER of an independent bookstore, I have noticed the increased interest in books about Donald Trump and the rest of us. The first wave arrived during the course of the campaign — mostly satirical broadsides written and purchased by people who never believed Trump would be elected. After the election, a new group of books arrived that sought to explain what most of us never thought would happen and offered sobering assessments of what might be ... [Read More]
The Collapse of the Postwar Compact: On Rick Wartzman’s The End of Loyalty
The Collapse of the Postwar Compact: On Rick Wartzman’s “The End of Loyalty” Book Review by Darryl Holter Los Angeles Review of Books SINCE THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, millions of Americans have been asking how it happened that Donald Trump became president. But perhaps we should be asking another question: what ever happened to good jobs in the United States? Today, almost half of the workforce earns less than $15 per hour. About a third of working-age men are either unemployed or unable to keep a family of four out of poverty. Median pay for women has not improved since the ... [Read More]
Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 – 1941: Book of the Year Award Winner
LOS ANGELES (June 26, 2017) Angel City Press announces that Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941 by Darryl Holter and William Deverell has earned a gold medal in the category of Performing Arts and Music (Adult Nonfiction) in the 19th annual Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards. The announcement was made during the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago June 24. The awards recognize the best books published in 2016 from small, independent, and university presses. The first book to thoroughly explore the legendary folk singer’s time in Los Angeles, Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941 argues that ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.