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Lyra Kilston

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Nonfiction, Architecture, History

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Lyra Kilston is a writer and editor in Los Angeles focused on architecture, design, art, urbanism, and lesser-known histories. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Next City, Artforum, Wired, TIME, Hyperallergic, Art in America, ICON, frieze, museum and biennial publications, and the Artbound website for public television station KCET, which aired an award-winning documentary based on one of her essays. She is a 4th-generation Angeleno, and after 20 years elsewhere, lives there again with her family.
Like Southern Californians of a century past, she enjoys curative sun baths.

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	Sun Seekers: The Cure of California by Lyra Kilston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ananda Pellerin (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 54 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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