| Paperback L.A. Book 2: A Casual Anthology: Studios, Salesmen, Shrines, Surfspots Contributor(s): Latempa, Susan (Editor), Bradbury, Ray D. (Contribution by), Hirahara, Naomi (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1945551372 ISBN-13: 9781945551376 Publisher: Prospect Park Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Travel | United States - West - Pacific (ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa) - Humor | Form - Essays |
| Series: Paperback L.A. |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.6" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paperback L.A. Book 2 continues the engaging "Casual Anthology" series with genre-crossing writing gems, vibrant photo essays, and more. Memoirs, magazine articles, and magic realism all make an appearance. Contributors include Baby Peggy on Holly wood, Ray Bradbury on Venice Beach, Karen Tei Yamashita on freeways, Preston Lerner on auto racing, Naomi Hirahara on Terminal Island, Gina B. Nahai on the Persian Jewish diaspora, Ann Summa on urban cyclists, and Hartmut Walter on shorebirds. Editor Susan LaTempa has worked at L.A. Style, West Coast Plays, Westways, the Los Angeles Times, and beyond. |
Contributor Bio(s): Latempa, Susan: - 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 L.A.'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 L.A.Bradbury, Ray D.: - Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was a prolific and influential American author credited by the New York Times with bringing science fiction into the mainstream through such books as Fahrenheit 451 and the Martian Chronicles. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Bradbury's family moved to Los Angeles when he was fourteen, and when still a teen he sold a joke to the Burns and Allen Show. He wrote more than thirty books, almost 600 short stories, and many screenplays, teleplays, and other works.Nahai, Gina B.: - Gina B. Nahai is a best-selling author, columnist, and emeritus professor of creative writing at USC. Her novels have been translated into eighteen languages, and she has received the Los Angeles Arts Council Award, the Persian Heritage Foundation's Award, the Simon Rockower Award, and the Phi Kappa Phi Award. Her writings have appeared in numerous national and international publications as well as in a number of literary and academic journals and anthologies. She is a monthly columnist for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and is a three-time finalist for an L.A. Press Club award. Her most recent novel, the Luminous Heart of Jonah S., was a finalist for the Jewish Book Council's fiction award in 2014 and long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award.Himes, Chester: - Chester Himes (1909-1984) was the author of nearly twenty novels, dozens of short stories, and two volumes of autobiography, among which some of the best known are If He Hollers Let Him Go, a now-classic account of wartime Los Angeles as experienced by a black protagonist, and Cotton Comes to Harlem, one of a series of mysteries set in Harlem but based on two L.A. policeman he knew, written after he had self-exiled to France, where he lived for many years.Hirahara, Naomi: - Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Summer of the Big Bachi, Strawberry Yellow, Sayonara Slam, and Hiroshima Boy. She is also the author of the Ellie Rush mysteries (Penguin) and the co-author of Life After Manzanar (Heyday). Her Mas Arai books have earned such honors as Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year and one of the Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers. Naomi has also written many books about gardening and Japanese-American history and culture, and has contributed to several anthologies, including Los Angeles Noir and Santa Cruz Noir. The Stanford University alumna was born and raised in Altadena, California; she now resides in neighboring Pasadena. Learn more at naomihirahara.com. |