“Neither a community, nor even a group of neighbors, Venice is home to the Lonely Crowd, those economic atoms that fuel neo-liberal capitalism. (Almost) none of the neighbors have names, and they’re not happy about it. They want their individualism, and they want it now. In “Ozone Av” one of the “neighbors” calls him out: ‘Why write about streets? Why not write about people? It’s like your streets are empty?’ And then she adds, stingingly, ‘My name isn’t neighbor.’”
-from a review of 300 Streets of Venice California by Tom Laichas
