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Paperback LA is a surprising and witty collection of some of the best writing ever about Los Angeles. More than a dozen major selections include new work and fresh discoveries: a radio broadcast, a ballad, a magazine article, excerpts from prizewinning novels and memoirs. These pieces are punctuated by perceptive photo essays, a quotable lineup of one-liners, and other quick hits. In the company of a virtuosic band of storytellers, Paperback LA roams across the decades, from just after the Mission era to just after Hollywood's golden age, from the post-hardcore punk scene to a reimagined today. With Susan Sontag, we visit Thomas Mann. With Paul Beatty, we turn a Metro ride into a PCH party. With Hctor Tobar, we search for people who lived somewhere around here.



About the Author

Susan LaTempa

Susan LaTempa is series editor of Paperback L.A., the three-volume "Casual Anthology" series from Prospect Park Books. With Colleen Dunn Bates, she's co-author of Storybook Travels: Visiting the Landmarks of Children's Literature and volumes of The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids (Random House) . She edited Shameless Hussy Press's New Plays by Women and was associate editor of Plays from Padua Hills (Pomona College) . As an editor LA Style magazine, Westways magazine and The Los Angeles Times, she has written, assigned and edited arts, culture, travel, cooking and other feature articles, working with writers and photographers. At Liberty Hill Foundation, she has produced short videos about L.A.'s social justice activists. Susan has been a contributor of news, articles, essays, cheap-eats reviews, book reviews, recipes, parodies, profiles and other work to a wide range of periodicals, including Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Wet, Bon Appetite, Gourmet, Palm Springs Life, Written By, Art & Antiques, Travel & Leisure, Emmy, etc.



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