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Page iii Los Angeles in Fiction A Collection of Essays Revised Edition Edited by David Fine University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Los Angeles in fiction : a collection of essays / edited by David Fine.Rev. ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1625-5 (pa) 1. Los Angeles (Calif.) in literature. 2. American fictionCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory and criticism. 3. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Fine, David M., 1934 PS374.L57L6 1995 813'.5093279494dc20 95-9764 CIP 1984 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Revised edition 1995 by the University of New Mexico Press

Page v CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Edition ix Introduction David Fine 1 Part 1 Starting Places 1 The Los Angeles Novel and the Idea of the West Richard Lehan 29 2 Beginning in the Thirties: The Los Angeles Fiction of James M. Cain and Horace McCoy David Fine 43 3 The Day of the Painter; the Death of the Cock: Nathanael West's Hollywood Novel Gerald Locklin 67 4 John Fante's Eternal City Stephen Cooper 83

Page vi Part 2 Los Angeles and the Detective Novel 5 Behind the Territory Ahead Paul Skenazy 103 6 Raymond Chandler's City of Lies Liahna K. Babener 127 7 The Ultimate Seacoast: Ross Macdonald's California Jerry Spei 151 Part 3 Perspectives 8 Fantasy Seen: Hollywood Fiction Since West Mark Royden Winchell 165 9 Between Two Worlds: Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh in Hollywood Walter Wells 187 10 Home and Transcendence in Los Angeles Fiction Charles L. Crow 207 Part 4 Fiction as History 11 Streets of Fear: The Los Angeles Novels of Chester Himes Robert E. Skinner 227 12 Los Angeles from the Barrio: Oscar Zeta Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach People Raymund A. Parede 239 13 History as Mystery, or Who Killed L.A.? Paul Skenazy 253 14 Chinatown, City of Blight Liahna K. Babener 273 15 Double Agent: The Los Angeles Crime Cycle of Walter Mosley Gilbert H. Muller 287 Contributors 303

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to all the contributors, who took time from busy teaching and writing schedules to write these essays and make the various editorial changes I requested. I am indebted to Paul Skenazy and Liahna Babener, both of whom took on double assignments. I am particularly grateful to Professor Babener for assisting me as well in the editing of the manuscripts. She reveiwed each essay thoroughly and professionally and made innumerable suggestions which have been incorporated into the text. Finally, I want to acknowledge my gratitude to Elizabeth C. Hadas and Barbara Guth, my editors at the University of New Mexico Press, for their expert advice, constant support, and help in guiding the manuscript through all the stages of preparation and production. DAVID FINE LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

Page ix PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION This second edition of Los Angeles in Fiction incorporates new essays on three novelists who have come into prominence since the first appearance of this collection in 1984-John Fante, Chester Himes, and Walter Mosely. The inclusion of critical essays on these major writers helps round out the portrait of Los Angeles as a major literary region in this century. One could easily, of course, make cases for the inclusion of still other writers. A multi-author critical collection like this, however, cannot, as I state in my introduction to the first edition, hope for the inclusiveness of a single-author history of the literature of a region. In soliciting new essays on Fante, Himes, and Mosely, I sought to broaden the context of the original volume's coverage by bringing to it the work of three writers who are receiving increased critical

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