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Listening to Art Laboe
by Susan Straight From Boom Spring 2011, Vol. 1, No. 1 Susan Straight is Boom writer-in-residence for 2011. For nearly all their lives, since they could first begin to understand the words to the songs...
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Foreclosures
by Susan Straight photographs by Lucy Puls From Boom Summer 2011, Vol. 1, No. 2 Susan Straight is Boom writer-in-residence for 2011. The empty houses I see everywhere—foreclosures that happened to my...
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Bird Proud
by Susan Straight From Boom Fall 2011, Vol. 1, No. 3 Family and belonging at LAX (Proud Bird image courtesy of Telstar Logistics) The history of Los Angeles is inextricably tied to migrations—though...
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Off the Grid
by Susan Straight Photography by Douglas McCulloh From Boom Winter 2011, Vol. 1, No. 4 Undercover independence This is the state we’re in—the California that people love to jeer in a perennial way, the...
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Assembly Required: The Desert Cure
by Rubén Martínez From Boom Summer 2012, Vol. 2, No. 2 The transformative art of Noah Purifoy Late one winter morning I drive off the asphalt and onto the loamy, rutted earth at the outer reaches of...
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Blood and Sand
by Rubén Martínez From Boom Fall 2012, Vol. 2, No. 3 Making the victims visible There are many deserts, and many deserts within each of them. The desert I write about here is both physical and...
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Echoes of Magón
by Rubén Martínez From Boom Winter 2012, Vol. 2, No. 4 The march between two cities I grew up in Los Angeles, but my family’s far-flung roots instilled in me the idea that I had the birthright to live...
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