more from the booster camp
Ever since Nathanael West's hero in "The Day of the Locust" (1939) painted a masterpiece called "The Burning of Los Angeles," writers — especially those just arrived from somewhere else — have dreamed about disasters that would punish a city that seemed to have no use for them, except as highly paid slaves of Hollywood.
But this habit, always dubious, looks positively out of date to anyone who knows the truth about literary Los Angeles. In fact, there has never been a shortage of serious, gifted writers in Los Angeles and its surroundings.
Amen.
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But this habit, always dubious, looks positively out of date to anyone who knows the truth about literary Los Angeles. In fact, there has never been a shortage of serious, gifted writers in Los Angeles and its surroundings.
Amen.
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