Title: L.A. exiles
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.
Subjects: European literature, Translations into English, American literature, City and town life, Literary collections
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
Time periods: 20th century