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Jesse Katz

Jesse Katz is the author of The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA, which is a finalist for an L.A. Times book prize and a PEN America literary award. He spent 24 years on staff at the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine.

Film

What ‘Die Like a Man’ Gets Right that Other L.A. Hood Movies Don’t

Shot on a shoestring budget in just 14 days, Die Like a Man is an intimate portrait of a naïve teenage boy striving to live up to misguided masculine codes while struggling to accept the female affection that seems agonizingly close to saving him.

April 14, 2025