Paperback L.A. Book 1

A Casual Anthology: Clothes, Coffee, Crushes, Crimes
Fotograf: Landau, Robert / Herausgeber: Latempa, Susan

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Produktbeschreibung

Susan Sontag on teen life Eve Babitz on bodysurfing Arna Bontemps on the shimmy Victoria Dailey on bookshops and backrooms Victor and Mary Lau Valle on pulque Vin Scully on Koufax Hector Tobar on inner landscapes Clancy Sigal on gangster chic Paul Beatty on PCH partying Also: Route Riffs. One-liners. Photo Essays: L.A. Obscura by Robert Landau

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 171mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781945551246
• ISBN-10: 1945551240
• Artikelnr.: 48858258

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Style of Dress of the Wealthy Californios
......................................William Heath Davis.
An appreciation of fashion-forwardness in the 1830s. Excerpted from the
book Seventy-Five Years in California
Culture & Porn: L.A. Bookshops in the 20s and 30s ..................
Victoria Dailey
In Raymond Chandler's L.A., the porn racket was part of the rarified world
of the wealthy. Here's the true history behind L.A. Prohibition Era
bookstores with back rooms.
Mudtown: Watts Pastorale, 1915-20 ........................Arna Bontemps
Former St. Louis jockey Little Augie finds the rural high life in L.A.'s
"Mudtown" at Leake's Lake on-trend dance pavilion. From the Harlem
Renaissance writer's novel God Sends Sunday (1931).
One-liners............................................................................Various
writers
From H.L. Mencken's "The whole place stank of orange blossoms" to Michael
Connelly's "Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for
it if necessary," we've got you covered for punch lines.
A Day's Work
..............................................................................Carlos
Bulosan
In Depression-era L.A., this poet, immigrant and labor organizer learned
that it was a crime to be Pilipino. He describes his first day in town in
the spare prose of a weary young migrant, frightened at every turn as L.A.
cops make their violent way through the community. From America is in the
Heart (1941).
Hollywood Agent Attire, Blacklist-Era
style..................................................Clancy Sigal
In this excerpt from his 2016 memoir Black Sunset, young Clancy is broke in
midcentury Los Angeles. He's a movie buff and radicalized WWII vet with
borrowed pants and a pair of FBI guys trailing, when he's hired as rookie
Hollywood agent. He needs haberdashery.
Pilgrimage
..........................................................................Susan
Sontag
Before Susan Sontag was America's "social critic with verve" as the New
York Times obit described her, before she was an internationally acclaimed
intellectual, feminist and LGBTQ icon, she was a teenager in the Valley in
L.A. In a piece for the New Yorker, she remembered how as a teen in 1958,
she had tea with her literary idol German expatriate novelist Thomas Mann.
Frozen
Looks...........................................................................Eve
Babitz
Eve Babitz's bio often gets more attention than her incandescent, rapturous
prose about her beloved L.A. After all, the Doors song "L.A. Woman" is
about her, and well, there's more. This account of her teenaged self at the
beach from Eve's Hollywood captures all the knowing, rough-edged angst of
local youth in the Rebel Without a Cause era.
Call of Sandy Koufax's perfect
game..................................................... Vin Scully
Ask Angelenos what L.A. means to them and a significant percentage will
answer "The Dodgers." And for decades, the Dodgers experience meant
Baseball Hall of Famer Vin Scully. We bring you his unforgettably dramatic
broadcast call of the ninth inning of the perfect game pitched on September
9, 1965 by Sandy Koufax.
Route Riff I: The Ballad of Dave and
Eddie..........................................Dan Bern
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Dan Bern overhears what some might call a
stoner moment. His ballad is also a spot-on expression of the beach-city
mindset celebrated in the film The Big Lebowski. Basically, Dave and Eddie
decide they need another freeway. First published in Zyzzyva, Summer 1991.
Children of
Mayaguez.......................................................Victor and
Mary Lau Valle
Pulitzer-prize winning Chicanx/Latinx iournalist and ethnic studies
professor Victor Valle is an L.A. native who remembers his Uncle Teofilo
showing him in the mid-1980s how to make pulque from backyard maguey.
Excerpted from the cookbook/memoir Recipes of Memory: Five Generations of
Mexican Cuisine (1995), which he wrote with his wife, Mary Lau Valle.
Thirty-Ninth Street
......................................................................................Hector
Tobar
Best-selling Chicanx/Latinx author Hector Tobar's 2011 Barbarian Nurseries
was named a New York Times Notable Book and Boston Globe Best Fiction Book
that year for its masterful shaping of a widescreen view of L.A. In this
excerpt, Araceli Ramirez, housekeeper and artist, on a quest through the
city, steps to the end of one of L.A.'s billions of dead end streets and
finds a portal to self-discovery.
Route Riff II: Exact
Change......................................................................................Paul
Beatty
Forget car culture. A Metro bus turned amphibious landing vehicle is one of
the vivid images from the Man Booker Prize winning The Sellout (2016) by
African American novelist, poet and satirist Paul Beatty. Beatty, born and
raised in L.A. uses echoes of history to re-dream of the present, as in
this excerpt, in which we join a renegade party cruise up Pacific Coast
Highway.