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

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 ...