Can an L.A. writer be defined? We asked L.A. writers to debate the subject
Can an L.A. writer be defined? We asked L.A. writers to debate the subject
- April 14, 2022
- Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, April 14, 2022
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What writer do you think of when you think of Los Angeles or Orange County? What makes someone an L.A. or O.C. writer? … Héctor Tobar, [UCI associate professor of literary journalism and Chicano/Lation Studies]: I think of Bertolt Brecht and all his German exile friends. And Raymond Chandler, who invented a genre in L.A. And Luis Rodríguez and his wonderful memoir about gang life in the San Gabriel Valley. What makes a writer an L.A. writer? They write in Los Angeles!
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