{"id":67004,"date":"2014-02-20T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=67004"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:43:20","slug":"attention-angelenos-we-are-in-your-fair-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/attention-angelenos-we-are-in-your-fair-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention, Angelenos: We Are in Your Fair City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67010\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jj-sullivan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67010\" class=\" wp-image-67010\" alt=\"jj sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jj-sullivan.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jj-sullivan.png 590w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jj-sullivan-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: John Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As New York\u2019s brutal winter wends its way onward, ever onward, two among us have had the good sense to go West: our <strong>John Jeremiah<\/strong> <strong>Sullivan<\/strong> <strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong> have absconded to LA, which reliable sources indicate is sunny, balmy, and unspeakably pleasant. The two of them are probably, at this very moment, tooling around in a slick late-model convertible and soaking up rays, the reflection of the Hollywood sign visible in the lenses of their Wayfarers.<\/p>\n<p>But they have a job to do: tonight, at 7:30 <small>P<\/small>.<small>M<\/small>., Sullivan will <a href=\"http:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/programs\/detail\/program_id\/2093\" target=\"_blank\">give a reading as part of the Hammer Museum\u2019s Some Favorite Writers series<\/a>, where he\u2019ll be joined by Stein. The event is free, and given how wonderful it must feel to be in Los Angeles, you can expect both gentlemen to be in top form. Go!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New York\u2019s brutal winter wends its way onward, ever onward, two among us have had the good sense to go West: our John Jeremiah Sullivan and Lorin Stein have absconded to LA, which reliable sources indicate is sunny, balmy, and unspeakably pleasant. 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