June 2025
Moxie heard a noise and peered through the peephole. “Check out this fox.” I slid over to view a ravishing beauty with blond hair flowing over her shoulders. Moxie pulled on the knob. Like a figure popping out of a jack-in-the-box, a preppy dude who’d accompanied the woman sprang to life. I thought, my God, David Bowie. My gaze settled on the sexy girl, but I’d misidentified the man with the rolled-up sleeves. Her escort? Michael Philip Jagger.
"Los Angeles culture and personal experience entwine in a memoir that is vivid and personal. Lefkowitz traverses the city’s counterculture and the process of coming of age with equal vividness, drawing readers into explosive realizations and interactions whether he’s dealing with friends, family, or the greater culture and world of Southern California:
"From loves and loss to careening up the canyons of the city in “erratic directions,” Welcome to Fabulous Angeles imparts a rare feeling of freestyling through the forces of new adulthood with shifting purposes and perspectives.
"Lefkowitz captures this milieu and juxtaposes it with his personal life challenges, “riding conversational waves,” “toasting the moment,” and building new relationships and pathways that forge into adulthood with as much subtlety as a hammer.
"Libraries looking for memoirs of California’s 1970s era which are steeped in music, culture, and coming-of-age experiences will relish how vividly Welcome to Fabulous Angeles captures and contrasts both a sense of the times and a new adult’s growth processes.
"From stormy relationships that simmer into better choices and lessons about life to music-and-girl infused experiences that portend new beginning, Welcome to Fabulous Angeles is a memoir filled with excitement and personal experience that will delight any reader seeking to better know 1970s Los Angeles’s many influences."
June 10, 2025