This just in Dept.
Kalifornia Uber Alles
(Say, this is really good!)
Like Christopher Isherwood dipping into the screenwriter's pool only to find Nathaniel West already comfortable on an inflatable crocodile, the intrepid Barney Hoskyns travels to Hollywood Babylon to pound his journalistic beat, talk story, gather confessions, and otherwise research his upcoming book on the real Canyon Scene of yesteryear, and here tells of wildfires, suicide, and breakfast with Mickey Dolenz.