From the Archives: California Dreamin’
Part 1: Why Don’t We Sing This Song All Together
Free to all this Monday, “California Dreamin’,” in two parts drawn from Homo Vitruvius’s older-than-three-months, paywalled archives — with part II to follow Thursday next week — comes from only the second full month of the Substack’s life, when planet Vitruvius rotated still but a solar stripling smoldering from its creation. It tells the story of my first travels away from New York on my own, at the age of 17 with my best friend, hitchhiking up the coast of California during the culturally emblematic summer of Woodstock and of my journey’s traumatic aftermath. Its chronology follows by two summers the vision I offer in “Hot Town (Summer 1967).”
Hot Town (Summer 1967)
*Forms of memory, or memory forms, emerge from a purposeful blend of memoir, creative nonfiction, and autofiction. The aim is to sculpt, out of the lived material of a life, artful form; to represent the life’…
This coming Thursday, I will post the first entry in the new monthly two-part series A Reader’s Review, with the second part to follow next Monday.
Ann-Margaret was dancing down the middle of Sepulveda Boulevard.
We were watching her from an overpass above. We were 17 and 19, and we had just walked out of Los Angeles International Airport in Au…
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