LA Shorts - Softcover

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13 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890771295 ISBN 13: 9781890771294

Publisher: Heyday Books, 2000

Some of the best writing in America is coming out of Southern California as is evidenced in this first-ever collection of short fiction from Los Angeles. Among the two dozen stories featured here are those by well-known voices such as Ethan Canin, Walter Mosely, and Kate Braverman, as well as those by emerging writers such as Ty Pak, Sandra Tsing Loh, and Karen E. Bender. Edgy and intense, provocative and poignant, LA Shorts is destined to open readers' eyes to a literature of the real place.

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About the Author:

Steven Gilbar is the editor of numerous anthologies about California, including California Shorts (Heyday Books, 1999). Other collections include Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing (University of California Press), Santa Barbara Stories and Red Tiles, Blue Skies: More Tales of Santa Barbara from Adobe Days to Present Days (John Daniel and Company), and Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading (David R. Godine).

Review:

"A more truthful representation of contemporary LA life than any Big Important Los Angeles Novel - a West Coast Bonfire of the Vanitites..." -- New Times Los Angeles

"A wildly diverse and vivid portrait of the City of Angels" -- Publishers Weekly

"Celebrates a literature both rich and surprising,...as varied in tone, technique, and vision as the people who inhabit that exotic conglomerate of a city." -- T. Coraghessan Boyle

"LA Shorts presents the national literature of a state of mind, richer and more various than those of half the countries of the earth." -- Michael Chabon

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