All the Saints of the City of the angels
Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets: Paintings and Stories  by J Michael Walker
Praise Be!
"One of the most satisfying aspects of releasing my book has been receiving heartwarming compliments from colleagues. Here is a selection."

Sandra Cisneros praising J Michael Walker’s All the Saints of the City of the Angels, Heyday Books 2008
“Walker sees angels everywhere, the divine in the ordinary, saints in survivors. And that, in our era of fear and rage, is miracle enough for me.”
- Sandra Cisneros,
Author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo

Al Young, California's Poet-Laureate, photographed before an All the Saints backdrop at the LA Times Festival of Books, April 08


"ALL THE SAINTS OF THE CITY OF THE ANGELS is a treat to wander and a joy to behold."
- Al Young,
Poet-Laureate of California,
and author of Drowning in a Sea of Love and the forthcoming Jazz Idiom


william deverell praising J Michael Walker’s All the Saints of the City of the Angels, Heyday Books 2008
“Art and history coming together at the streetscape level: inventive, erudite, and thoughtful.”
-William Deverell, Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past

Laura E Perez praising J Michael Walker’s All the Saints of the City of the Angels, Heyday Books 2008
“J. Michael Walker's book is an original, deeply empathetic spiritual geography of Los Angeles that sights present day sanctity among today's humble and downtrodden.”
-Laura E. Pérez, Assoc. Professor of Chicano Studies at UC Berkeley, and author of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities



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