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The book focuses chapters on locations that the youth visits and certain personages he meets there, from New York City, to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. Throughout the novel, the unnamed narrator has trysts with various peculiar characters, including another hustler, an older man, an S&M enthusiast and a bed-ridden old man.
336. ISBN. 978-1-4767-4018-8. The Library Book is a 2018 non-fiction book by Susan Orlean about the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Central Library. It received strongly favorable reviews and became a New York Times Best Seller.
1960–1974. Status. Retired. Rank. Patrolman. Detective sergeant. Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) [1] is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as ...
California State University, Los Angeles (BA) Website. gdphillips.com. Gary Phillips (born August 24, 1955) is an American writer, editor, and community activist whose 1994 novel Violent Spring is considered a classic work of crime fiction [1] and one of the essential crime novels about Los Angeles. [2] His more than two dozen books range from ...
1948 (age 75–76) United States. Occupation. Rabbi, writer, lecturer. Genre. Judaism, ethics. Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American rabbi and writer. He has authored more than 15 books, [1] including volumes about Jewish ethics, Jewish literacy, as well as the book Rebbe, a New York Times bestseller released in June 2014. [2]
Author and USC professor Percival Everett joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on Nov. 16 to discuss "Dr. No" at the Autry Museum. ... 34 books including novels, poetry, short story collections ...
The Choirboys (ISBN 0-440-11188-9), a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of "The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time". The Choirboys is a tragicomic parody about the effects of ...
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. [1][2][3] They are: Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses". Several characters from the L.A. Quartet, most notably Dudley Smith, were introduced in Ellroy's 1982 ...