This is an L.A. that has never been described before. With a new afterword.

"Its intelligent combination of essays reveals much about Los Angeles which does not always find its way into socio-historical texts about the area. The editors' remarks preceding each essay expertly bind the book together.

This is essential reading for anyone interested in the literature and changing image of Southern California.

Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny.

After twenty-five years of covering a city in wild transition, Los Angels Times columnist Al Martinez takes a shot at capturing Los Angeles in still life, as it is now, today, this very moment.

This book documents 115 little-known sites in Los Angeles where struggles related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment have occurred.

"Los Angeles feels like one of the most American cities in America," writes novelist and short-story writer A. M. Homes on her choice of subjects for a travel memoir, "a mythological mecca, an epicenter for visionaries, romantics, and ...