My Birthday Part 2: L.A.’s The Broad Museum and The Last Bookstore

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3 min readApr 25, 2024
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Birthdays are the best! For the entire month, I soak up any and all good wishes that come my way. Last week I showed you part of the jam-packed walking tour of history-dense downtown Los Angeles that my wonderful Khashayar took me on. It was a day of hooky for us, me from querying stellar agents to rep my novels.

Here’s the second half of our outing, the arty and bookish parts. The Broad Museum, which opened in 2015, is chock-full of ground-breaking modern art.

Their most popular work is the one at the top of this post. Stepping into Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room usually requires making reservations a month in advance. Fortunately, the staff let us take advantage of last minute cancellations. Kusama’s work references prior masters, such as the pointillism of

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