Secrets, Sigalerts, Ravines, Records - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945551496 ISBN 13 : 9781945551499

Editeur : Prospect Park Books, 2019

Synopsis

Secrets. Sigalerts. Ravines. Records.
In Paperback L.A., A Casual Anthology Book 3, our contributors deftly command fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, magazine writing, memoir and other forms to conjure up visions of a Beverly Hills Wonderbread factory, the founding of the first sustained gay rights organization in the country, early 20th-century wagon-train settlers in Dodger Stadium area, a late 20th-century DTLA traffic tie-up that becomes a kind of symphony, a humorous 1940s novelty song whose refrain buoyed civil rights activists, the 1990s outrigger-team apprenticeship of a Tongva youth--and more. Plus, photo essays on "Motion and Stasis," "Hometown Gold," "The Right Notes," and "Nowhere."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Susan LaTempa identifies as an editor in Los Angeles, not as a Los Angeles editor. At L.A. Style, West Coast Plays, Padua Hills Theater Festival, Westways, The Los Angeles Times, and Liberty Hill Foundation, she's worked with journalists, playwrights, novelists, recipe developers, landscapers, photographers, and videographers. She's concentrated on addressing L.A.'s vast, cosmopolitan audiences, in the process helping shape dozens of memorable articles, reviews, memoirs, parodies, essays, theater pieces, and videos that have illuminated so many aspects of L.A.

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel. The last was a finalist for the National Book Award and received the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder, with Bettina Aptheker, of the UC Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

Lisa See is a best-selling author of fiction and nonfiction, including the family history On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995); the historic novels The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and Shanghai Girls; and the mysteries Dragon Bones, The Interior, and Flower Net. Her books have been published in thirty-nine languages. She wrote the libretto for an opera based on On Gold Mountain, has curated museum exhibitions, and designed a walking tour of L.A.'s Chinatown. She is a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Opera. lisasee.com

Carey McWilliams wrote many books, including Factories in the Field (1939), Brothers Under the Skin: African-Americans and Other Minorities (1943), Prejudice: Japanese-Americans, Symbol of Racial Intolerance (1944), Southern California: An Island on the Land (1946), and A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America (1948). He was also a lawyer and public servant (California Division of Immigration and Housing), chaired the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee in the early 1940s, and was editor of The Nation from 1955 to 1975.

Jonathan Gold, the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, did just that in 2007 for his "zestful, wide-ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater." A native Angeleno, he was a proofreader at L.A. Weekly while still a student at UCLA, and within a few years wrote music and restaurant reviews as well. His "Counter Intelligence" column ran from 1986 to 1990, when he moved it to the L.A. Times, where it appeared until 1996. In 1999, he and his wife, editor Laurie Ochoa, moved to Gourmet magazine, then later returned together to L.A. Weekly and revived "Counter Intelligence." Gold published a collection of his columns in 2000, was profiled in The New Yorker in 2009, was a National Magazine Award finalist for criticism, was the subject of the 2015 film documentary City of Gold, and was a frequent James Beard Award nominee or winner from 1996 until his death in 2018.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prospect Park Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945551496
• ISBN 13: 9781945551499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Éditeur: Latempa Susan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne