fat city

Fred and I developed a relationship; he wanted me to try out for a part in a movie called “Fat City.”

Clark: After “Fat City,” I was batting zeros for a year.

We’re in the early ’70s, so Gordita inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines.

And wouldn’t animals be in fat city with all the roaches named Mitch McConnell bought by Democrats?

The valley has made notable appearances in literature: in the fiction of John Steinbeck, the essays of Joan Didion, as well as Leonard Gardner‘s 1969 boxing novel “Fat City,” set in Stockton, which later inspired a movie directed by John Huston.