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D.J. Waldie is one of the most resonant and enduring voices of Los Angeles. To wit, Waldie’s first book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” his account of growing up within and alongside the City of Lakewood, is still in print, 30 years after it was first published. But this isn’t to say that his perspective has remained in what he calls “one nondescript, very ordinary corner of southeast L.A. County,” even if he himself has — he’s lived there for his entire life, 77 years as of last month. In Waldie’s subsequent three books, including his newest, “Elements of Los Angeles” (published in September from Angel City Press), he’s expanded his point of view to cover all of Los Angeles, b

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