Letters From Los Angeles: Small Pleasures
On making crumbles in a time of war. I have been finding it increasingly difficult to do…well, just about anything these days. I know I’m not alone. The horror, the grief, the paralysis, the...
Author: Emma Campbell Webster
EMMA CAMPBELL WEBSTER writes "Letters from Los Angeles, notes from an Oxford-educated English writer on the uncommon, peculiar, and occasionally magical experience of life in the City of Angels. It appears weekly at substack.com.
LETTERS FROM L.A.: BATHING WITH JOAN
Separated by 50 years but united by Hollywood, wildfires, and the endless hum of 'the deal,' two writers share a bath in Los Angeles. On Monday I took a bath with Joan Didion. She was gracious, took...
Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Miles Away
and breathtakingly close to home By EMMA CAMPBELL WEBSTER I WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I’d made another soup, but then war broke out. I was going to tell you that I’d made it from a recipe in a...