http://laist.com/2004/10/18/_the_laist_interview_laurie_pike.php All comments for The LAist Interview: Laurie Pike en-us 2008 la_jeremy Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com jeremy.oberstein@gmail.com 60 http://laist.com/2004/10/18/_the_laist_interview_laurie_pike.php#comment-143768 http://laist.com/2004/10/18/_the_laist_interview_laurie_pike.php#comment-143768 Comments Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:21:23 -0800 <p>While we're at it, can we retire the notion of Joan Didion as some kind of goddamn iconic L.A. writer? The best L.A.-themed book, quite simply, is Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust." Didion even references it in "Slouching Toward Bethlehem." </p> http://laist.com/2004/10/18/_the_laist_interview_laurie_pike.php#comment-143767 http://laist.com/2004/10/18/_the_laist_interview_laurie_pike.php#comment-143767 Comments Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:58:54 -0800 <p>Please, please can we retire the word ``editrix?'' It was kind of old in the Betty Page era, and is practically antediluvian now.</p>