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Jesse Katz

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As an author, a magazine writer, and a newspaper reporter, I’ve spent four decades telling stories about culture, immigration, gangs, food, music, sports, and the overlooked people of my adopted city, Los Angeles. I got excited about literary journalism as a college kid after encountering the works of nonfiction pioneers like Joan Didion and Truman Capote—and, more recently, Matthew Desmond (Evicted) and Susan Orlean (The Library Book) and Jason De León (Soldiers and Kings). They continue to remind me that creativity flows from rigor, that to tell a story with any kind of verve, you need to first go out and earn your facts: the slow, deliberate, occasionally uncomfortable work of observation and trust-building that allows a writer to explor ...more

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