This week my Angelus News column features several iconic California novels:
“West was an eccentric and a huge boozer. He died at 37 when, en route back to LA from a trip to Mexicali, he ran a stop sign near the Salton Sea and caused an accident which killed him and his young wife.
He achieved posthumous semi-cult fame and “The Day of the Locust” was later made into a movie.
That’s a story with California written all over it.”
Speaking of California, in other news, I may be contemplating a summer house-sitting trip to LA and I have a week-long retreat scheduled in July for St. Andrew’s Abbey.
Then early September it’ll be off to Ireland to host a Memoir Writing Workshop at Kylemore Abbey, followed by a week in my beloved NYC, Met Museum membership card in hand.
Summer is upon is in other words.
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