Book Review: Woody Guthrie, House of Earth

Authors

  • David L. Ulin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5420/wga.0.106

Keywords:

Woody Guthrie, House of Earth, novel, review

Abstract

Woody Guthrie, House of Earth: A Novel, edited and introduced by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp. New York: Infinitum Nihil/HarperCollins, 2013. xliv + 234pp., ISBN 978-0-06-224839-8. Cloth, £25.99 / £14.99.

Author Biography

  • David L. Ulin
    David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2015). His other books include The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time (Sasquatch, 2010) and the Library of America’s Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (2002), which won a California Book Award. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is book critic for the Los Angeles Times.

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Published

2015-06-24

Issue

Vol. 1 (2015)

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Articles

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