Literary Love Letters To Los Angeles

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A while back we did a post on literary love letters to NYC, but we knew at some point we should honor the entertainment capital of the world, so today is our offering for Los Angeles. It's a tough town, as the authors below know all too well, and it can be a very dark place sometimes. But as long as people keep dreaming of their name in lights, LA will remain as the city to go to become a star. So here's to all the film buffs, rock stars, and waiters waiting for a lucky break -- keep toughing it out, and enjoy the scenery in the meantime. All hail Tinseltown, in all its troubled, frightening glory.

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[FriarTuck13]

07:03 AM on 07/11/2011

Raymond Chandler's "Red Wind" "The Long Good-By"
James Ellroy's "Hollywood Nocturne" "LA Confidential"
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon."
Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust"
Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One"
Isabel Allende "Zorro"

[dahpunkster]

10:25 PM on 07/10/2011

bloodsucking fiends you suck bite me - chris moore

[dahpunkster]

10:24 PM on 07/10/2011

the vampire books about chris moore

[Carmen Madonna Campos]

10:04 PM on 07/10/2011

Joan Didion IS L.A.

[Lleah]

11:58 PM on 07/08/2011

Apparently you have to be a misogynistic male to love LA. How about Janet Fitch's classic "White Oleander" and more obscure but very lovely "Paint it Black".

[WYHKTai-Tai]

07:48 PM on 07/09/2011

I was thinking of those two also! I would add to those, TC Boyle's "Tortilla Curtain" and most Michael Connelly books. Connelly and Fitch paint LA, the highs and the lows, the stark diversity of the city better than any writers I've read; (from my impressions of having lived there). In Connelly's case, surprising for a 'paperback-detective/crime writer'.