HeyJaredDESIRE LINES: BOOKS, CULTURE, ART
Little-known and forgotten gems: eccentric travel, interior pilgrimage, family dysfunction, sinners, saints. Plus takes on culture and art from a diehard reader, memoirist, and Benedictine oblate.
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STRANGE VAGABAOND OF GOD: JOHN BRADBURNE (opens the original)
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SUPER KING: THE GLORY OF LA’S MIDDLE EASTERN MARKETS (opens the original)
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One of the greatest discoveries of my early years in LA, back in the 1990s, was the Jons Market on Hobart and Santa Monica Boulevards in East Hollywood.Jons was my introduction to the culinary wonders of the Middle East. Cartons of sour cherry and black currant juice. Kefir, smoked herring, eight kinds of feta. Sugared almonds, sheets of apricot paste, rounds of dried figs. Rustic blocks of deep brown-green olive oil soap. $6.99-a-pound loose tea in a box of cheap pink cardboard with Ara
THE LITTLE PRINCE (opens the original)
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SONGS FROM THE NORTH: SOON-MI YOO’S DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NORTH KOREA (opens the original)
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ALL GLORY TO THE HUMBLE MAILMAN (opens the original)
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