Paperback L.A. Book 1: A Casual Anthology: Clothes, Coffee, Crushes, Crimes
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Review "Genius."Los Angeles magazine"The mix of short fiction, architectural criticism, creative nonfiction, photography, and even a recipe makes these two titles unique among the dozens of anthologies celebrating literary Los Angeles. Both titles are stand-alone collections, but the brief nature of most of the pieces make for quick reads that bring a new dimension to the city’s literary canon"―KCET (L.A.'s PBS station)“While the format is perhaps casual, and the book accessible, this first volume’s thematic focus is intense, vivid and thoughtful, obviously informed by research, affection, and a critical editorial process. There’s a careful curation of voices here, each elaborating on, complicating, arguing for a perhaps previously unconsidered part of the Los Angeles story. Eclectic and revisionist, brave, and, yes, incredibly fun.” ― Bibliocracy, KPFK public radio Los Angeles Read more From the Back Cover Susan Sontag on teen lifeEve Babitz on bodysurfingArna Bontemps on the shimmyVictoria Dailey on highbrow smutVictor and Mary Lau Valle on pulqueVin Scully on KoufaxHector Tobar on inner landscapesClancy Sigal on gangster chicPaul Beatty on PCH partyingAlso: Route Riffs. One-liners. Photo Essays: L.A. Obscura by Robert Landau Read more About the Author Susan LaTempa is a Los Angeles editor. At LA Style, West Coast Plays, Padua Hills Theater Festival, Westways, The Los Angeles Times, and Liberty Hill Foundation, she's worked with journalists, playwrights, novelists, recipe developers, landscapers, photographers, and videographers. She's concentrated on addressing LA's vast, cosmopolitan audiences, in the process helping shape dozens of memorable articles, reviews, memoirs, parodies, essays, theater pieces, and videos that have illuminated so many aspects of LA. Read more
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Reviews
What a fun read...to see the city I've lived in all my life through the view of a wide spectrum of writers! I especially loved reading about Susan Sontag's meeting with Thomas Mann when she was just a teenager; and Cecil Castellucci's excerpt from "Beige" perfectly captures the LA punk rock scene, as a young girl gets tossed into a summer with her estranged dad.
