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Bestial
Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, David Gates (Introduction)
From The Award-Winning Literary Magazine Tin House Comes An
Indispensable Collection Of Established and Emerging Fiction Stars. In just four
short years Tin House has established itself as the most eclectic, exciting, and
popular literary magazine in America today. Stories from its pages have been
honored in Best American Stories. the O'Henry Prize Anthology, and the Pushcart
Prize Anthology, Bestial Noise showcases today's masters of the short form
including David Foster Wallace. Amy Hempel, Mary Gaitskill, Ron Carlson, Jim
Shepard, Helen Schulman, Jonathan Lethem,
Tara Ison, and Lydia
Davis, along with Tin House discoveries David Schickler, Nancy Reisman, and
Julie Benesh. These extraordinary, vital stories are a primer for the current
state of cutting-edge fiction and confirm why the Village Voice has declared
that 'Tin House may very well represent the future of literary magazines.'
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Writing
Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology edited by
David L. Ulin
In Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, The Library of America presents a panorama in fiction, poetry essays, journalism, and diaries by more than seventy writers. Beginning with Helen Hunt Jackson's romantic portrayal of the city's early days, the anthology covers a century's worth of Los Angeles writing. It brings to life the entrancing surfaces and unsettling contradictions of the City of Angels, from Raymond Chandler's evocation of murderous moods fed by the Santa Ana winds to John Gregory Dunne's affectionate tribute to "the deceptive perspectives of the pale subtropical light."" "Here are strata of Los Angeles history from the 1920s oil boom and the 1940s Zoot Suit Riots to 1950s beat culture and 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson. The pleasures and discontents of the Hollywood movie colony are parsed by such observers as Nathanael West, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Christopher Isherwood." Fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms are examined by writers as various as M.F.K. Fisher, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Octavio Paz, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, Walter Mosley, Mona Simpson, and Charles Mingus. Art Pepper discovers the Central Avenue jazz scene of the 1940s; Salka Viertel recalls her circle of German emigre intellectuals; Garrett Hongo navigates the complexities of the city's racial patchwork; Tom Wolfe celebrates the subculture of custom car aficionados; John McPhee investigates the devastation of Los Angeles mudslides; screenwriter Robert Towne reflects on Chinatown's origin; David Hockney teaches himself to drive; James Ellroy delineates the world of hard-bitten homicide cops; Pico Iyer finds at LAX "as clear an image as exists today of the world we are about to enter. <<buy now>>
Another
City edited by
David L. Ulin
Thirty-seven Los Angeles authors map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary LA. Short stories, chronicles and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the entertainment industry and earthquakes, riots and racism, fires and freaks.
Wrestling
with Gabriel by
David Lynn
Baltimore reporter Jason Currant is a classic burnt-out case: scarred by Vietnam and a recent divorce, he casts a jaded eye on the world, trusting no one. Then comes an improbable call from Iowa. His idealistic former brother-in-law has been charged with raping a fifteen year-old girl. could gentle Gabriel, who has devoted himself to organi8zing exploited workers, possibly commit such an act? His socialist friends respond with an emphatic no, blaming an out-of-control police force for setting him up. Jason is not so sure. Traveling to Iowa, Jason encounters a vivid group of characters: Simon, the committed socialist willing to sacrifice anyone, even Gabriel, for the cause; Grey, Gabriel's Native American wife who sees all but reveales nothing, Leroy, the victim's father whose powerlessness and misguided anger led him to violence; Costello, a policewoman hopelessly caught between her corrupt colleagues and her desire to do the right thing; and in the center, the enigmatic Gabriel, both saintly and naive.
Set against a backdrop of industrial and moral decay, Wrestling with Gabriel, offers a gripping tale about the search for truth and justice. By the time the jury reaches its verdict, one thing is clear: Gabriel's fate will be decided but the larger questions will remain unanswered. Like Iris Murdoch, David Lynn has written a political novel that transcends the genre by confronting the moral complexities that go along with a commitment to an ideal. <<buy now>>
Fortune
Telling by David Lynn
In this collection of fourteen short stories, David Lynn crafts each tale with the eye of a poet. The tightly written stories explore various topics, but always come back to issues of cultural impact. Though individually these stories speak of specific characters' lives, the effect is a rumination on a greater common theme of cultural identity.
House
Fire: A Collection of Poems by
B. J. Buhrow
Driving straight for the nitty-gritty, the poems in House Fire are filled with extraordinary wit and intelligence. "In these gem-like, many-faceted poems, by B.J. Buhrow evokes - with a luminous sexuality, a voluptuous clarity - the bright promise and ominous threat that reside in the seemingly mundane and commonplace. Mortality, lawlessness, beauty, love, and risk, roil beneath the calm, taut surfaces of her compelling and haunting lyrics. House Fire is a beautiful, and unforgettable, book."—Ron Wallace, author of Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks
Fleur de
Leigh in Exile by
Diane Leslie
Diane Leslie's first novel, Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, chronicled young Fleur Leigh's glamorous misadventures in 1950s Hollywood. "Tres charmant indeed," Entertainment Weekly praised this Library Journal and Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1999.
Fleur de Leigh in Exile finds fifteen-year-old Fleur in diminished circumstances. She transferred mid-semester to Tucson's Rancho Cambridge West -- the cheapest boarding school in all the United States -- where frail students convalesce in the arid clime and dine on the mess hall's "adobe melt." "Think of yourself as a conquistador," her B-movie actress mother urges, but Fleur's eyes are widened to the evils of prejudice and the burdens of combating it. After a night of dorm-room high jinks, Fleur and friends band together as the "Four-Letter Four." Sentenced to a civic-minded punishment deep in the desert, the "doomed do-gooders" encounter a grave situation far removed from Fleur's upper-class upbringing. Serious issues abound, but in Diane Leslie's world even the most painful moments are tinged with comedy. Diane Leslie's writing is "enchanting, believable, and wickedly funny" (Denver Post). Witty and fresh, Fleur de Leigh in Exile pits Heartland against Hollywood in a tale whose courageous heroine is as endearing in exile as ever before.
Fleur
de Leigh's Life of Crime by
Diane Leslie
Tucked away in her parent's lavish Beverly Hills mansion, young Fleur de Leigh has all the benefits of a privileged upbringing. Hers is a world marked by glamour and abundance, where the air is thick with showbiz glitz and couches sink under big screen stars. Fleur's mother, a flamboyant, ambitious B-movie actress and eponymous star of The Charmian Leigh Radio Mystery Half-Hour, and aloof father, currently reduced to producing TV game shows, casually entrust their daughter to a procession of nannies. Among them are Bettina, who accessorizes her uniform with high heels; Clover, an orphan determined on an acting career; and the monstrous Miss Hoate, whose brief tenure ends when she is escorted from the job in a straitjacket. From the quirky to the certifiably insane, these women all play a role in shaping Fleur, touching her heart, and ours, in unique and unpredictable ways.
A Woman's Path
by Jo Giese
In candid first-person stories and stunning photographs, A Woman's Path celebrates the diverse life paths of women of all ages across the country. How many times have we met a woman who is doing interesting work and thought. How did she get to do that? Moved by the ever-growing number of women today who have found the careers they have, journalist Jo Giese traveled across the United States to interview women of all ages, races, and occupations, from a Pennsylvania farmer to the president of a brokerage house on Wall Street to a Franciscan nun in New Mexico. In their own words, these women speak triumphantly about the difficult choices they have faced, the sacrifices they have made, and the obstacles they have overcome -- from family, from the workplace, and from within themselves -- in their quest to find meaningful work. <<buy now>>