Letter from Los Angeles By Linda Sandoval "In the city of the angels all the angels tend to hide. I ain't seen an angel since I crossed the great divide." (Frank Larrabee, singer/songwriter, Corrales, New Mexico) The Saturday before Christmas 2006 The cardiologist is talking with the film director and one of those blonde botoxed hell-hound … [Read more...] about Class Portraits from the City of Angels
Linda Sandoval's Letter from Los Angeles.
Rules for Girls (Not)
Letter from Los Angeles By Linda Sandoval In which Linda shares the Rules for Attending High School Dances in Los Angeles where rituals of the teenage courting dance have become so highly commercialized, dangerous, competitive and excluding that they are nearly unrecognizable not to mention completely unfun. THE LOS ANGELES GUIDE TO HIGH SCHOOL DANCES (WARNING: DON'T … [Read more...] about Rules for Girls (Not)
To Missouri
Letter from Los Angeles Written by Linda Sandoval In which Linda tells a story about a trip to the Midwest, her mother, a ghost, the Hanta Virus and The Usefulness of Other People I read somewhere that the most stubborn stage in the grieving process is "longing" … [Read more...] about To Missouri
In the Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Marilyn’s Ghost
Letter from Los Angeles By Linda Sandoval In which Linda looks for Marilyn in the mirror while contemplating the future both haunted and un-haunted. Hollywood Gothic. The Roosevelt Hotel. A lobby full of tufted black leather coffins disguised as couches from which the dead arise each morning to look for what they … [Read more...] about Marilyn’s Ghost