To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s adulatory column on “prophet” Mike Davis is strictly what you’d anticipate from somebody assured to purchase into probably the most dystopian takes on our benighted metropolis.
So I doubt that Arellano ever learn the blistering takedown of Davis’ magnum opus, “Metropolis of Quartz,” by former Occasions columnist and critic Christopher Hawthorne again in 2011.
Hawthorne derided the ebook as, amongst different shortcomings, “overwritten and shamelessly hyperbolic,” “in determined want of … fact-checking,” “bitter the place it’s not curdled” and “densely filled with self-regard.”
To be honest, it’s not a completely destructive evaluation. Nevertheless it no less than has the advantage of steadiness, one thing Arellano can not muster.
Jeff Schultz, Los Angeles
