Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties @VersoBooks
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties  @VersoBooks
Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Book launch for Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s “Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.” Joining Davis and Wiener in conversation is Tom Lutz, founder and editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Review of Books and author, most recently, of “Born Slippy.” They will discuss “Set the Night on Fire” and its many resonances for urban communities today, the recent effects of COVID-19 on Los Angeles, and take live questions from the YouTube audience.

“Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties” is available from Verso Books:
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