Collects eleven pieces re the author's version of Los Angeles; dedicated to Curtis Hanson, director of LA Confidential. Uncorrected proof.
1984
Gordimer, Nadine
1972
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1999
Huidobro, Vicente
1930
Frank, Leonhard
1964
O'Brien, Flann
1971
Southern, Terry
1996
Billson, Anne
1977
Burroughs, William S
2000
Pearson, T.R.
1989
Mahfouz, Naguib
1934
Orioli, G.
1992
Brookner, Anita