L.A. Review of Books – Tony Mostrom

America’s “Mein Kampf”: Francis Parker Yockey and “Imperium”

“The Faster You Pour It Down”: On Charles Bukowski’s “On Drinking”

“Sing of Human Unsuccess / in a Rapture of Distress”: The Tragicomic Poetry of John Tottenham

Dark Knights and Sunny Disquisitions: On David Kipen’s “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018”

An Unwelcome Brother

John Gilmore: Having Repeatedly Supped with the Devil

Lionel Rolfe and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Coffeehouses

Wiry Minstrels and Bloodletting Monster: William McKeen’s “Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles”

Desperate Straights: David Weigel on the Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

The Fascist and the Preacher: Gerald L. K. Smith and Francis Parker Yockey in Cold War–Era Los Angeles

Hitler Feared for Magnetism