Michael Fallon writes books, magazine articles, essays, and the occasional postcard on all sorts of subjects—art, the 1970s, Southern California, baseball, music, childhood, family, fatherhood. In all of his writing, through all of the subjects he explores, Michael seeks to know more about here and now. This means, when he’s obsessing about the art of L.A. in the 1970s, or about the Los Angeles Dodgers of 1977–78, it’s because he wants to understand today.