Writing Los Angeles: a literary anthology

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 Aimée / H.L. Mencken

from Oil! / Upton Sinclair

from Queer people / Carroll and 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

from The day of the locust / Nathanael West

from Diaries / Christopher Isherwood

Last kiss / F. Scott Fitzgerald

from Autobiography : Hollywood / Charles Reznikoff

A table at Ciro's / Budd Schulberg

Landscape of exile ; Hollywood elegies ; Californian autumn ; The democratic judge ; 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 / 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 Malibu ; Fire season / Joan Didion

waiting ; betting on now ; The death of my 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. / Rubén Martínez

from The control of nature / John McPhee

from City of quartz / Mike Davis

City of specters / Lynell George

from Devil in a blue dress / Walter Mosley

Las vistas / Mary Helen Ponce

Coming home to Van Nuys / Sandra Tsing Loh

The tooth of crime / James Ellroy

from Volcano / Garrett Hongo

Where worlds collide / Pico Iyer

Burl's / Bernard Cooper

from The atlas / William T. Vollmann

from Holy land / D.J. Waldie

Beneath Mulholland / David Thomson.