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    Apr 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. To live and write in L.A.

    I can still remember the first time I saw Los Angeles. It was December 1980, I was 9 years old, and the view came from the back seat of my older brother Lee's brown Chevette as we climbed up the Grapevine. My two sisters and I were crammed into the car along with all of Lee's earthly possessions — well, most of them, anyway, since the butterfly chair he had tied to the roof flew off somewhere near Kettleman City — which amounted to stacks of paperback books, three typewriters, every issue of Starlog that had been published to date and whatever pots and pans our mother could do without. In short, the essentials any college student would need for his first apartment, along with three younger siblings to help with the packing and schlepping.
    I can still remember the first time I saw Los Angeles. It was December 1980, I was 9 years old, and the view came from the back seat of my older brother Lee's brown Chevette as we climbed up the Grapevine. My two sisters and I were crammed into the car...

    Tags: Crime (genre), Genes and Chromosomes, Arts and Culture, Literature

    2. Apr 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Critic's Notebook: Literature of 1992 L.A. riots is fragmented

    One of my favorite pieces of writing to emerge from the 1992 Los Angeles riots is a poem by a writer named Nicole Sampogna, called "Another L.A." In it, the poet traces the odd dislocation of living on the Westside while so much of the city burns. "They send us home early, again," she begins, "supposedly for curfew sake, / but I know it's to beat the traffic." And then: "over there the smoke rises, / horns blare, streets scream, / shoot, loot, / bash windows, bash heads, / lights out / knocked out / by a black & white with a baton. / but, here / will the pizza man deliver after sunset?"
    One of my favorite pieces of writing to emerge from the 1992 Los Angeles riots is a poem by a writer named Nicole Sampogna, called "Another L.A." In it, the poet traces the odd dislocation of living on the Westside while so much of the city burns. "They...

    Tags: Concerts, Budd Schulberg, William T. Vollmann, Poetry, Science and Technology

    3. Dec 27, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Reading L.A.: Admirers of Los Angeles, warts and all

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    Christopher Hawthorne's "Reading L.A." series considers books by Richard Longstreth, John Chase and William Alexander McClung....
    4. Jul 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Happy birthday, Raymond Chandler!

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    Excerpts from an amazing 1957 interview between Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming....
    5. Sep 5, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Book review: 'Three Delays' by Charlie Smith

    Three Delays
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    Three Delays A Novel Charlie Smith Harper paper Perennial: 368 pp., $14.99 Billy and Alice are a tripped-out Scott and Zelda, a Jane Austen romance via Hunter S. Thompson, a Romeo and Juliet on the burned-out edge of the baby boom. Billy has no doubts...

    Tags: William Faulkner, Drugs and Medicines, Jane Austen, Health

    6. Mar 31, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. James Franco options Steve Erickson's 'Zeroville'

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    James Franco has optioned Steve Erickson's film-focused novel, Zeroville....
    7. Apr 6, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Your favorite L.A. book, Round 3: Ross Macdonald, Octavia E. Butler, Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West

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    Vote for your favorite of 48 excellent books about LA to see which will make the next round....
    8. Apr 7, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Your favorite L.A. books: runoff until Monday. Then the final...

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    Vote for your favorite Los Angeles books in our three semifinal polls....
    9. Apr 11, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Your favorite L.A. book runoff: Last chance to vote

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    There's still time to vote in the runoff for your favorite Los Angeles books....
    10. Apr 12, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Poll: What's your favorite book about Los Angeles?

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    Vote for your favorite book about Los Angeles from 12 finalist favorites. Voting closes Thursday morning....
    11. Oct 24, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Brick-and-mortar treasures in Tinseltown

    Like an old movie set, original Hollywood was dismantled ages ago, leaving what appears to be scant trace of its hallowed roots: The Hollywood Hotel (where Louis B. Mayer and a long list of silent movie stars stayed). The Hollywood Brown Derby (where Clark Gable reportedly proposed to Carole Lombard in booth No. 5). The Hollywood Canteen (where celebrity volunteers waited on tables and the millionth WWII serviceman guest got a kiss from Betty Grable).
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    Like an old movie set, original Hollywood was dismantled ages ago, leaving what appears to be scant trace of its hallowed roots: The Hollywood Hotel (where Louis B. Mayer and a long list of silent movie stars stayed). The Hollywood Brown Derby (where...

    Tags: Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, George Clooney, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes

    12. Jun 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  12. A free story from Nathanael West

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    Although Nathanael West was not a well-known writer in his time, he wrote two lasting novels -- "The Day of the Locust" and "Miss Lonelyhearts" -- before he was killed in a car crash in 1940 (he was on his......
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