Dispatch #23 - Summer Reading

Walking In Circles, Paddling Rivers, Vanishing Coastlines, and YUCK.

Good morning from Los Angeles, where the September oven has been cooking tar on the boulevards and inducing a constant deluge of sweat running earthbound between my shoulder blades like a monsoon rain blasting through a Mojave wash.

The heat hovers and quivers against the backdrop of concrete and stucco, as if you have to walk through its waves of radia…