Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun

For nearly ten years as a columnist with The Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez has traveled Southern California sifting for gold. When asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” Lopez responds, “I wake up and roll out of bed and bump into column ideas everywhere.” Ideas come from readers, from the news, from driving down the road or walking down the sidewalk, from getting a haircut or going to a ballgame.The greater L.A. area is a place where $50 million mansions are just a short limo ride from cardboard-box colonies. Action heroes and billionaires run for office with neither a plan nor a clue. You can get a fake driver’s license or a medical marijuana card faster than you can drive six blocks. There’s drama every day, a story in every block. Dreamers and schemers are found around every corner. And Lopez puts a spin on it all that makes the reader cringe, laugh and even think.Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun is a collection of Lopez’s most controversial, irreverent, troublemakin