Online Reading Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology - 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 imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock." In Writing Los Angeles, The Library of America presents a glittering panorama in fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. Beginning with Helen Hunt Jackson's romantic portrayal of the city's early days, the anthology covers a century's worth of Los Angeles writing. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of The City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler's evocation of murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne's affectionate tribute to "the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light." Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom and the 1940s Zoot Suit Riots to 1950s beat culture and 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson. The pleasures and discontents of the Hollywood movie colony are parsed by such observers as Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Christopher Isherwood. Fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms are examined by writers as various as M.F.K. Fisher, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, Walter Mosley, Mona Simpson, and Charles Mingus. Art Pepper discovers the Central Avenue jazz scene of the 1940s; Salka Viertel recalls her circle of German migr intellectuals; Garrett Hongo navigates the complexities of the city's racial patchwork; Tom Wolfe celebrates the sub-culture of custom car aficionados; John McPhee investigates the devastation of Los Angeles mud slides; screenwriter Robert Towne reflects on Chinatown's origin; David Hockney teaches himself to drive; James Ellry delineates the world of hard-bitten homicide cops; Pico Iyer finds at LAX "as clear an image as exists today of the world we are about to enter." Writing Los Angeles is an incomparable literary tour guide to a city of shifting identities and endless surprises. Contents: from Echoes in the city of the angels by Helen Hunt Jackson The land by Mary Austin from The rules of the game by Stewart Edward White from Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913 by Harris Newmark California and America by Vachel Lindsay from Laughing in the jungle by Louis Adamic Los Angeles. A rhapsody by Aldous Huxley Sister Aimee by H.L. Mencken from Oil! by Upton Sinclair from Queer people by Carroll and Garrett Graham from God sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels by Edmund Wilson Paradise by James M. Cain Golden land by William Faulkner Pacific village ; A thing shared by M.F.K. Fisher from Promised land by Cedric Belfrage Red wind by Raymond Chandlerfrom Ask the dust by John Fante from The day of the locust by Nathanael West from Diaries by Christopher Isherwood Last kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Autobiography : Hollywood by Charles Reznikoff A table at Ciro's by Budd Schulberg Landscape of exile ; Hollywood elegies ; Californian autumn ; The democratic judge ; The fishing-tackle ; Garden in progress ; from Journals by Bertolt Brecht from If he hollers let him go by Chester Himesfrom America is in the heart by Carlos Bulosan from Southern California country : an island on the land ; from North from Mexico by Carey McWilliams from America day by day by Simone de Beauvoir Hollywood by Truman Capote Death in Hollywood by Evelyn Waugh from The labyrinth of solitude by Octavio Paz The pedestrian by Ray Bradbury The mattress by the tomato patch by Tennessee Williams from The barbarous coast by Ross Macdonald from On the road by Jack Kerouac from "Ocian in view" by Lawrence Clark Powell The slide area by Gavin Lambert from Slum by the sea by Lawrence Lipton from Superman comes to the supermarket by Norman Mailer The lost world by Randall Jarrell The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby by Tom Wolfe Goodbye surfing, hello God! by Jules Siegel Los Angeles notebook ; The Getty ; Quiet days in Malibu ; Fire season by Joan Didion waiting ; betting on now ; The death of my father by Charles Bukowski from The kindness of strangers by Salka Viertel from Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies by Reyner Banham from Beneath the underdog by Charles Mingus from Bike riding in Los Angeles by Marc Norman Autopia by Cees Nooteboom The city of robots by Umberto Eco from David Hockney by David Hockney by David Hockney Los Angeles : the know-how city by Jan Morris from The sexual outlaw by John Rechy Eureka! by John Gregory Dunne from Straight life by Art Pepper from Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees ; L.A. glows by Lawrence Weschler Preface and postscript to Chinatown by Robert Towne August, Los Angeles, lullaby by Carol Muske Angel baby blues by Wanda Coleman from Anywhere but here by Mona Simpson Night song of the Los Angeles basin by Gary Snyder from Golden days by Carolyn See from I was looking for a street by Charles Willeford Going up in L.A. by Ruben Martinez from The control of nature by John McPhee from City of quartz by Mike Davis City of specters by Lynell George from Devil in a blue dress by Walter Mosley Las vistas by Mary Helen Ponce Coming home to Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh The tooth of crime by James Ellroy from Volcano by Garrett Hongo Where worlds collide by Pico Iyer Burl's by Bernard Cooper from The atlas by William T. Vollmann from Holy land by D.J. Waldie Beneath Mulholland by David Thomson
Online Reading Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
⚡Book Author : David L. Ulin
⚡Page : 880 pages
⚡Published September 30th 2002 by The Library of America
Online Reading Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
⚡Book Author : David L. Ulin
⚡Page : 880 pages
⚡Published September 30th 2002 by The Library of America
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology
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 imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock." In Writing Los Angeles, The Library of America presents a glittering panorama in fiction, poetry, essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. Beginning with Helen Hunt Jackson's romantic portrayal of the city's early days, the anthology covers a century's worth of Los Angeles writing. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of The City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler's evocation of murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne's affectionate tribute to "the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light." Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom and the 1940s Zoot Suit Riots to 1950s beat culture and 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson. The pleasures and discontents of the Hollywood movie colony are parsed by such observers as Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Christopher Isherwood. Fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms are examined by writers as various as M.F.K. Fisher, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, Walter Mosley, Mona Simpson, and Charles Mingus. Art Pepper discovers the Central Avenue jazz scene of the 1940s; Salka Viertel recalls her circle of German migr intellectuals; Garrett Hongo navigates the complexities of the city's racial patchwork; Tom Wolfe celebrates the sub-culture of custom car aficionados; John McPhee investigates the devastation of Los Angeles mud slides; screenwriter Robert Towne reflects on Chinatown's origin; David Hockney teaches himself to drive; James Ellry delineates the world of hard-bitten homicide cops; Pico Iyer finds at LAX "as clear an image as exists today of the world we are about to enter." Writing Los Angeles is an incomparable literary tour guide to a city of shifting identities and endless surprises. Contents: from Echoes in the city of the angels by Helen Hunt Jackson The land by Mary Austin from The rules of the game by Stewart Edward White from Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913 by Harris Newmark California and America by Vachel Lindsay from Laughing in the jungle by Louis Adamic Los Angeles. A rhapsody by Aldous Huxley Sister Aimee by H.L. Mencken from Oil! by Upton Sinclair from Queer people by Carroll and Garrett Graham from God sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels by Edmund Wilson Paradise by James M. Cain Golden land by William Faulkner Pacific village ; A thing shared by M.F.K. Fisher from Promised land by Cedric Belfrage Red wind by Raymond Chandlerfrom Ask the dust by John Fante from The day of the locust by Nathanael West from Diaries by Christopher Isherwood Last kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Autobiography : Hollywood by Charles Reznikoff A table at Ciro's by Budd Schulberg Landscape of exile ; Hollywood elegies ; Californian autumn ; The democratic judge ; The fishing-tackle ; Garden in progress ; from Journals by Bertolt Brecht from If he hollers let him go by Chester Himesfrom America is in the heart by Carlos Bulosan from Southern California country : an island on the land ; from North from Mexico by Carey McWilliams from America day by day by Simone de Beauvoir Hollywood by Truman Capote Death in Hollywood by Evelyn Waugh from The labyrinth of solitude by Octavio Paz The pedestrian by Ray Bradbury The mattress by the tomato patch by Tennessee Williams from The barbarous coast by Ross Macdonald from On the road by Jack Kerouac from "Ocian in view" by Lawrence Clark Powell The slide area by Gavin Lambert from Slum by the sea by Lawrence Lipton from Superman comes to the supermarket by Norman Mailer The lost world by Randall Jarrell The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby by Tom Wolfe Goodbye surfing, hello God! by Jules Siegel Los Angeles notebook ; The Getty ; Quiet days in Malibu ; Fire season by Joan Didion waiting ; betting on now ; The death of my father by Charles Bukowski from The kindness of strangers by Salka Viertel from Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies by Reyner Banham from Beneath the underdog by Charles Mingus from Bike riding in Los Angeles by Marc Norman Autopia by Cees Nooteboom The city of robots by Umberto Eco from David Hockney by David Hockney by David Hockney Los Angeles : the know-how city by Jan Morris from The sexual outlaw by John Rechy Eureka! by John Gregory Dunne from Straight life by Art Pepper from Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees ; L.A. glows by Lawrence Weschler Preface and postscript to Chinatown by Robert Towne August, Los Angeles, lullaby by Carol Muske Angel baby blues by Wanda Coleman from Anywhere but here by Mona Simpson Night song of the Los Angeles basin by Gary Snyder from Golden days by Carolyn See from I was looking for a street by Charles Willeford Going up in L.A. by Ruben Martinez from The control of nature by John McPhee from City of quartz by Mike Davis City of specters by Lynell George from Devil in a blue dress by Walter Mosley Las vistas by Mary Helen Ponce Coming home to Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh The tooth of crime by James Ellroy from Volcano by Garrett Hongo Where worlds collide by Pico Iyer Burl's by Bernard Cooper from The atlas by William T. Vollmann from Holy land by D.J. Waldie Beneath Mulholland by David Thomson
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