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Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology / edited by David L. Ulin.
Publication details: New York, NY : Library of America : Literary Classics of the U.S.; Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam, c2002.Description: xix, 880 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781931082273 :
- 1931082278 :
- PS572.L6 W74 2002
Partial contents:
From Echoes in the City of the Angels / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The land / Mary Austin -- from The rules of the game / Stewart Edward White -- from Sixty years in Southern California 1853-1913 / Harris Newmark -- California and America / Vachel Lindsay -- from Laughing in the jungle / Louis Adamic -- Los Angeles. a rhapsody / Aldous Huxley -- Sister Aimeé / H.L. Mencken -- from Oil! / Upton Sinclair -- from Queer people / Carroll & Garrett Graham -- from God sends Sunday / Arna Bontemps -- The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels / Edmund Wilson -- Paradise / James M. Cain -- Golden land / William Faulkner -- Pacific village ; A thing shared / M.F.K. Fisher -- from Promised land / Cedric Belfrage -- Red wind / Raymond Chandler -- from Ask the dust / John Fante -- The day of the locust / Nathanael West -- from Diaries / Christopher Isherwood -- Last kiss / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- from Autobiography Hollywood / Charles Reznikoff -- A table at Ciros / Budd Schulberg -- Landscape of exile ; Hollywood elegies ; Californian autumn ; The democratic jungle ; The fishing-tackle ; Garden in progress ; from Journals / Bertolt Brecht -- from If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes -- from America is in the heart / Carlos Bulosan --
from Southern California country : an island on the land ; from North from Mexico : blood on the pavements / Carey McWilliams -- from America day by day / Simone de Beauvoir -- Hollywood / Truman Capote -- Death in Hollywood / Evelyn Waugh -- from The labyrinth of solitude / Octavio Paz -- The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- The mattress by the tomato patch / Tennessee Williams -- from The barbarous coast / Ross Macdonald -- from On the road / Jack Kerouac -- from "Ocian in view" / Lawrence Clark Powell -- The slide area / Gavin Lambert -- from Slum by the sea / Lawrence Lipton -- from Superman comes to the supermarket / Norman Mailer -- The lost world / Randall Jarrell -- The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe -- Goodbye surfing, hello God! / Jules Siegel -- Los Angeles notebook ; The getty ; Quiet days in Malibou ; Fire season / Joan Didion -- Waiting ; Betting in now ; The death of the father / Charles Bukowski -- from The kindness of strangers / Salka Viertel -- from Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham -- from Beneath the underdog / Charles Mingus --from Bike riding in Los Angeles / Marc Norman -- Autopia / Cees Nooteboom --
The city of robots / Umberto Eco -- from David Hockney by David Hockney / David Hockney -- Los Angeles : the know-how city / Jan Morris -- from The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- Eureka! / John Gregory Dunne -- from Straight life / Art Pepper -- from Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees ; L.A. glows / Lawrence Weschler -- Preface and postscript to Chinatown / Robert Towne -- August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske -- Angel baby blues / Wanda Coleman -- from Anywhere but here / Mona Simpson -- Night song of the Los Angeles Basin / Gary Snyder -- from Golden days / Carolyn See -- from I was looking for a street / Charles Willeford -- Going up in L.A. / Rubeń Martińez -- from The control of nature / John McPhee -- from City of quartz / Mike Davis --
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PS 572 .L6 W74 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 600334 |
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| PS 536.2 .B29 1963 The moderns; an anthology of new writing in America, | PS 549 .N5 W75 2008 Writing New York : a literary anthology / | PS 559 .N4 B3 1972 The world from Jackson Square; a New Orleans reader. | PS 572 .L6 W74 2002 Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology / | PS 584 .B43 2001 The Best American Poetry, 2001 / | PS 584 .P45 1987 The Penguin book of American verse / | PS 586 .G59 2006 Good poems for hard times / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.875-880).
From Echoes in the City of the Angels / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The land / Mary Austin -- from The rules of the game / Stewart Edward White -- from Sixty years in Southern California 1853-1913 / Harris Newmark -- California and America / Vachel Lindsay -- from Laughing in the jungle / Louis Adamic -- Los Angeles. a rhapsody / Aldous Huxley -- Sister Aimeé / H.L. Mencken -- from Oil! / Upton Sinclair -- from Queer people / Carroll & Garrett Graham -- from God sends Sunday / Arna Bontemps -- The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels / Edmund Wilson -- Paradise / James M. Cain -- Golden land / William Faulkner -- Pacific village ; A thing shared / M.F.K. Fisher -- from Promised land / Cedric Belfrage -- Red wind / Raymond Chandler -- from Ask the dust / John Fante -- The day of the locust / Nathanael West -- from Diaries / Christopher Isherwood -- Last kiss / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- from Autobiography Hollywood / Charles Reznikoff -- A table at Ciros / Budd Schulberg -- Landscape of exile ; Hollywood elegies ; Californian autumn ; The democratic jungle ; The fishing-tackle ; Garden in progress ; from Journals / Bertolt Brecht -- from If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes -- from America is in the heart / Carlos Bulosan --
from Southern California country : an island on the land ; from North from Mexico : blood on the pavements / Carey McWilliams -- from America day by day / Simone de Beauvoir -- Hollywood / Truman Capote -- Death in Hollywood / Evelyn Waugh -- from The labyrinth of solitude / Octavio Paz -- The pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- The mattress by the tomato patch / Tennessee Williams -- from The barbarous coast / Ross Macdonald -- from On the road / Jack Kerouac -- from "Ocian in view" / Lawrence Clark Powell -- The slide area / Gavin Lambert -- from Slum by the sea / Lawrence Lipton -- from Superman comes to the supermarket / Norman Mailer -- The lost world / Randall Jarrell -- The kandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline baby / Tom Wolfe -- Goodbye surfing, hello God! / Jules Siegel -- Los Angeles notebook ; The getty ; Quiet days in Malibou ; Fire season / Joan Didion -- Waiting ; Betting in now ; The death of the father / Charles Bukowski -- from The kindness of strangers / Salka Viertel -- from Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham -- from Beneath the underdog / Charles Mingus --from Bike riding in Los Angeles / Marc Norman -- Autopia / Cees Nooteboom --
The city of robots / Umberto Eco -- from David Hockney by David Hockney / David Hockney -- Los Angeles : the know-how city / Jan Morris -- from The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- Eureka! / John Gregory Dunne -- from Straight life / Art Pepper -- from Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees ; L.A. glows / Lawrence Weschler -- Preface and postscript to Chinatown / Robert Towne -- August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske -- Angel baby blues / Wanda Coleman -- from Anywhere but here / Mona Simpson -- Night song of the Los Angeles Basin / Gary Snyder -- from Golden days / Carolyn See -- from I was looking for a street / Charles Willeford -- Going up in L.A. / Rubeń Martińez -- from The control of nature / John McPhee -- from City of quartz / Mike Davis --
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