from Echoes in the City of Angles / Helen Hunt Jackson
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 Aimee / H.L. Mencken
from Oil! / Upton Sinclair
from Queer people / Carroll Graham & Garrett Graham
from God sends Sunday / Arna Bontemps
The city of our Lady the Queen of the angels / Edmund Wilson
Golden Land / William Faulkner.
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
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
Fire season / Joan Didion.
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
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 / Jon 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. / Ruben Martinez
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 -
