will-self.com » High Life http://will-self.com The official website of novelist and journalist Will Self Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The most authentic places on earth http://will-self.com/2008/11/28/the-most-authentic-places-on-earth/ http://will-self.com/2008/11/28/the-most-authentic-places-on-earth/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:01:33 +0000 Chris H http://will-self.com/?p=527 Will was part of a panel that chose the “50 most authentic places on earth”. Here are two of his choices:
Los Angeles, USA:
“What can be more mondial and timely than this high-rise outgrowth of the great sprawl: the historic core of LA, the beginning of the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, and the location of Echo Park, where Chinatown was filmed? Downtown LA is the bulwark between the Hispanic city of East LA and the Anglo city to the west. Anyone going to LA for empty-headed perma-tan Valley Girls need, emphatically, look elsewhere.”

Holderness Coast, Yorkshire, England:
“While the coast has resorts – Bridlington, Withernsea – and caravan parks aplenty, its mysterious and crumbly aspect means that it isn’t a tourist destination per se.”

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