Michael DochertyMichael Docherty is an Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University. His first book is The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles (SUNY Press 2024). His other writing on LA literature, culture, ad history has appeared in Crime Fiction Studies, Comparative American Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at California State University, Long Beach, and formerly co-edited Post45: Contemporaries. Read More Read Less