His major writings include Clement Greenberg: Art Critic (1979), The Cult of the Avant - Garde Artist (1993), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant - Garde Art (1996), Redeeming Art:
Critical Reveries (2000), and The End of Art (2004).
Plainspoken and witty, it qualifies as social history, film theory, personal
reverie, architectural history and criticism, a bittersweet meditation on automotive transport, a
critical history of mass transit in southern California, a wisecracking compilation of local folklore, «a city symphony in reverse,» and a song of nostalgia for lost neighborhoods such as Bunker Hill and unchronicled lifestyles such as those of locals who walk or take buses.