Barrett Avner

Jan 16, 2025 | thepointmag.com | Barrett Avner

Los Angeles Burns | | One of the first books I ever read was City of Quartz by Mike Davis. Growing up in LA, reading it felt serendipitous—I didn’t read much and had very little interest in structural criticism. Before that the only books I had finished were Louis L’Amour paperback westerns with my grandpa and Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver—yet it found its way to me somehow in a manner I can neither recall nor remember.