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It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil
Credits Jonathan S. Blake is an associate editor of Noema Magazine and an associate director at the Berggruen Institute. The weird thing about growing up in oil country was that I had no idea I was growing up in oil country. I thought we lived in Hollywood …