Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America) by David L. Ulin

Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)

David L. Ulin with William T. Vollmann, Edmund Wilson, Upton Sinclair, Sandra Tsing Loh, Walter Mosley, Bertolt Brecht, Art Pepper, Randall Jarrell, M.F.K. Fisher, Ross Macdonald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, Simone de Beauvoir, Nathanael West, Norman Mailer, Octavio Paz, James M. Cain, Mona Simpson, Charles Mingus, Jack Kerouac, Mike Davis, Joan Didion, Charles Bukowski, Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Budd Schulberg, John Gregory Dunne, Wanda Coleman, Tom Wolfe, H.L. Mencken, Vachel Lindsay, Pico Iyer, Carey McWilliams, Christopher Isherwood, Gary Snyder, John Fante, Tennessee Williams, Aldous Huxley, James Ellroy, Reyner Banham, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Chester Himes, David Hockney

880 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction essays short stories adventurous slow-paced
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Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson ...

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