Short Story Anthologies, American Literature - Regional Literature - Literary Criticism, Literature Anthologies - General & Miscellaneous, American Literature Anthologies

Another City: Writing from Los Angeles

Name: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles
Author: David L. Ulin
ISBN: 9780872863910

by David L. Ulin

Available on Bookshop Write a review

Books.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.

Overview

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.

Contributors include: Jervey Tervalon, Aimee Bender, Benjamin Weissman, Sesshu Foster, Richard Rayner, Jeffrey McDaniel, Amy Uyematsu, Russell Leong, Aleida Rodríguez, Luis Alfaro, Bia Lowe, Amy Gerstler, and others.

David Ulin has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. From 1993-6 he was the book editor of the LA Weekly. He is currently on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and writes regularly for the LA Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times.

Synopsis

Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered, diverse, and extremely fertile literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Ulin uses L.A.1s narrative disconnection not only as justification for an anthology of disconnected narratives but as proof that such an anthology is the most sensible way to approach L.A., a city that is in his words "a succession of glimpses, impressions, shuffled together and resonating.

About the Author, David L. Ulin

David Ulin has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. From 1993-6 he was the book editor of the LA Weekly. He is currently on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and writes regularly for the LA Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Log in to write one.

Editorials

Los Angeles Times Book Review

**Named one of the Best Books of 2001.

Brian Bouldrey

.....what is new and exciting in "Another City," is the emergence of a Los Angeles style. . . . Western writing sprawls, trying to fill up empty space. . . . the West turned its back on the East; one of the key messages written into every entry in Another City is, "If you want to see me, you're going to have to come here. I'm going to stay.
— Chicago Tribune

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Ulin uses L.A.¹s narrative disconnection not only as justification for an anthology of disconnected narratives but as proof that such an anthology is the most sensible way to approach L.A., a city that is in his words "a succession of glimpses, impressions, shuffled together and resonating.

Library Journal

Some 37 poets, essayists, and short-story writers have lent their considerable talents to a collection as diverse as Los Angeles itself. L.A.'s film lots, barrios, boulevards, and beaches merge into a landscape and culture rich, unique, and often true to itself despite its alleged artificiality. For example, Erik Himmelsbach hilariously discusses the fine art of dodging a geeky fellow Jew in the halls of Sepulveda Junior High. In another piece, Lynell George illustrates how the real L.A. is not readily distilled to one or two handy stereotypes about surfer culture but rather is a "loud cacophony" of lifestyles, cultures, and "competing melodies." Ulin, a regular contributor to LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsday and the former books editor for the Los Angeles Reader, nicely adds a number of poets and fiction writers who give voice to the newcomer experience and the dynamics of staying a step ahead of relocation panic and loneliness. Highly recommended. Susan A. Zappia, Paradise Valley Community Coll., Phoenix Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.