Sex, death, and God in L.A.
By: edited and with an introduction by David Reid.
Contributors: Reid, David, 1946-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization
Other titles: Sex, death, and God in LA.
Description: "David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best address the myths, define the truths, and interpret the media images of the second largest city in the U.S. They report on the new Latino and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment of the West side; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; shuttered factories and thriving sweatshops; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power in Movieland and yoga and seduction in Beverly Hills. Ranging from acute political commentary to evocative literary impressions, this is a collection that will engage not only those who live in southern California but all those curious about this megalopolis in the desert."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1992. With new pref.
Table of contents: title: On the rim of the Pacific century / Alexander Cockburn; title: Chinatown, revisited? / Mike Davis; title: The empty quarter / Mike Davis; title: Melting / Carolyn See; title: Bodies and souls / Eve Babitz; title: City of specters / Lynell George; title: The possessed / David Reid; title: La Placita / Rubén Martínez; title: Machines in the garden / Thomas S. Hines; title: Uneasy street / David Thomson; title: Rack's rules / Jeremy Larner.