My
first story in a glossy magazine: Nine writers shared Christmas memories.
The lineup included the late Wanda Coleman as well as Jeanne Wakatsuki
Houston, and I got in only because Herb Caen dropped out.
LA WEEKLY, in the Jay Levin era. I didn't even know this confessional piece was going to run until I saw a model playing me on the cover.
This
issue marked DETAILS' debut as a young men's
magazine. I only climbed one rock.
Twenty
years before Spike Jonze's HER.
I've written for an alarming number of magazines that no longer exist. I didn't expect one of them to be THE LOS
ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE.
Here it reappears as WEST.
The late Nicolas Slonimsky, in the late LA STYLE, at 93.
I was five in this photo. (LA STYLE's special issue on the Ocean.)