Another City

by Ulin, David L.

• ISBN13: 9780872863910
• ISBN10: 0872863913
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered, diverse, and extremely fertile literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Only Heaven	1	(4)
Marjorie Gelhom Sa'adah
Interesting Times	5	(6)
Judith Lewis
Train	11	(2)
Ellyn Maybe
Minnle Riperton Saved My Life	13	(6)
Luis Alfaro
Joseph speaks to gericault in the studio	19	(6)
michael datcher
The Exterminator	25	(6)
Rob Roberge
Maternity	31	(16)
Amy Gerstler
Bed and Brimstone	47	(2)
Bart Edelman
The Fecality of It All	49	(6)
Benjamin Weissman
Fried Chicken	55	(10)
Erik Himmelsbach
Magic Hour	65	(10)
Erika Schickel
Dear America	75	(2)
Jeffrey McDaniel
The Mutilated Man	77	(16)
Sesshu Foster
Enter the Year of the Dragon, 2000	93	(8)
Russell Charles Leong
Naked Chinese People	101	(14)
Diane Lefer
before	115	(2)
Amy Uyematsu
Cactus	117	(18)
Tara Ison
Atwater	135	(14)
Jacqueline De Angelis
Native to the Place	149	(14)
Lynell George
When Mother Nature Visits Southern California	163	(2)
David Hemandez
Job's Jobs	165	(6)
Airnee Bender
Fascist Island	171	(2)
Gerald Locklin
Los Angeles	173	(24)
Richard Rayner
The Beach at Sunset	197	(2)
Eloise Klein Healy
Bad Girl on the Curb	199	(4)
Lisa Glatt
Day Time	203	(10)
Bruce Bauman
Bieler's Broth	213	(4)
Louise Steinman
Anagoge	217	(2)
Aleida Rodriguez
A Note for Everything	219	(8)
Samantha Dunn
Naked	227	(2)
Susan McMullen
Inside Miss Los Angeles	229	(6)
Jerry Stahl
Ezzle, Sweating	235	(2)
Cindy Milwe
Trouble Man	237	(20)
Jervey Tervalon
An Empty Classroom, Lincoln Heights	257	(2)
William Archila
This Year in Los Angeles	259	(4)
David L. Ulin
Good Wives Don't Drive	263	(2)
Joan Jobe Smith
Lost	265
Bia Lowe