L.A. exiles
Subtitle: Los Angeles writing, 1932-1998
By: edited and introduced by Paul Vangelisti with Evan Calbi ; photographs by Jen Calbi.
Contributors: Vangelisti, Paul.; Calbi, Evan.
Publisher: Marsilo Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: American literature -- California -- Los Angeles; European literature -- Translations into English; City and town life -- Literary collections; American literature -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Literary collections
Genres: Translations into English.; Literary collections.
Description: "There are cities writers have sought as inspiration; Paris in the '20s, or New York or San Francisco in the '40s and '50s. Then there is Los Angeles, a place poets and writers have avoided or at least never expected to end up in. Once arrived, many found themselves remarkably productive, intrigued with the lost city and a life that often struggles to be heroically elsewhere. L. A.

Exile is a guide to the literature, the writers and the physical spaces that have made for what composer Igor Stravinsky called "splendid isolation.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.