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Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block. Weetzie Bat “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental- tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick.

Jan 13, 2016

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Page 1: Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block. Weetzie Bat “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental- tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick.

Weetzie BatBy Francesca Lia Block

Page 3: Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block. Weetzie Bat “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental- tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick.

Weetzie Bat• “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental-

tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick Jones

• No other writer has written so accurately about the reality of life in Los Angeles” Patricia J. Campbell

• Written as a college senior at UC Berkeley when nostalgic for LA.

• Inspired by Magical Realism: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude and Isabelle Allende’s House of Spirits.

Page 5: Weetzie Bat By Francesca Lia Block. Weetzie Bat “A pop-culture-driven, fable-laden, sentimental- tone prose poetry… strange and dreamlike.” Patrick.

Oki Dogs (1)

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Tinys was known for it's curbside service - girls on roller skates, T-shirts, and skimpy costumes. different for those days. Teenagers cruised here. women used to come there in carloads. It was a big place for everyone. Northwest corner of Sunset and La Brea. (1)

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Jerry. Dirk’s car a red ‘55 Pontiac (2)A slinkster-cool car

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ARROW AND LUCIAFASHION STORY INSPIRED BY WEETZIE BATPAPER MAGAZINE

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Some poetic lines. What do they mean?

• Love is a dangerous angel. 15• She couldn’t leave where it was hot and cool,

glam and slam, rich and trashy, devils and angels, Los Angeles. 21-22

• Weetzie felt her heart stealing all the blood in her body. 49