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Liu, Haiming. From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States. Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Ray, Krishnendu. The Ethnic Restaurateur. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Reviewed in: The Los Angeles Review of Books, March 20, 2017
May 13th, 2016 § 0 comments § permalink
Manaugh, Geoff. A Burglar’s Guide to the City. FSG Originals, 2016.
Reviewed in: The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 12, 2016
March 25th, 2016 § 0 comments § permalink
Orenstein, Peggy. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. Harper, 2016.
Reviewed in: The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2016
February 7th, 2016 § 0 comments § permalink
Serrano, Shea. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed. Abrams, 2015.
Reviewed in: The Los Angeles Review of Books, February 6, 2016.
September 4th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Reviewed in: New York Times Sunday Book ReviewSeptember 4, 2015
May 7th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas. Edited by Patricia Wakida. Heyday, 2015
Reviewed in: The Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2015
October 15th, 2014 § 0 comments § permalink
Petrusich, Amanda. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records. Scribner, 2014.
Appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, October 15, 2014.
August 3rd, 2014 § 0 comments § permalink
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990. Edited by Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013. 320 pages. $59.95 cloth.)
Never Built Los Angeles. Edited by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell. (New York: Metropolis Books, 2013. 376 pages. $55.00 cloth.)
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles. By Josh Kun. (Los Angeles: Angel City Press, 2013. 223 pages. $50.00 cloth.)
Appears in Southern California Quarterly, 96(2): 235-239.
April 27th, 2014 § 0 comments § permalink
Choi, Roy. L.A. Son : My Life, My City, My Food. Ecco, 2013.
Huang, Eddie. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. Spiel, 2013.
Appears in: Los Angeles Review of Books, April 27, 2014.
November 13th, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink
“To Live and Dine in Kogi L.A.” Contexts. Vol. 8(4), Fall 2009
Culture review.
“While praised for being a more youthful, multiethnic, and tech savvy form of food delivery, Kogi trucks providing ethnic fusion street food in Los Angeles also illustrate the persistence of socioeconomic divisions in urban life. According to Oliver Wang, Kogi demonstrates that there are still lines that aren’t crossed when it comes to urban ethnic relations.”