By Gustavo Arellano
FROM: L.A. Times

SAN DIEGO — You can easily understand why Mike Davis might be glum.

The Jeremiah of Southern California — the writer equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.

He recently decided to stop chemotherapy and is now at his San Diego home on palliative care. Doctors have given him months to live.

The recent COVID surge has slowed the torrent of activists and academics stopping by to say their goodbyes. He came out with a new book last year but now has to reject the multiple writing requests coming his way.

I wasn’t expecting a quick response when I emailed him asking for an interview — but he immediately replied.

A Facebook post announcing his fate “gave many people the impression that I was imminently at death’s door,” he wrote. “In fact I’m in fine spirits, surrounded by love, ridiculously pampered, and managing discomfort with a little morphine.” Read Rest of Article Here