My Favorite LA Novels

Professor Smith’s favorite LA stories… “Ask the Dust,” Fante 1930s “Day of the Locust,” Nathaniel West 30s/40s Mildred Pierce James M. Cain 40s “A Single Man,” Christopher Isherwood. 1960s “Play it as it Lays,” Joan Didion “Bike Riding in Los Angeles,” Marc Norman 1970s “Less than Zero,” Brett Easton Ellis 1980s “Amnesiascope,” Steve Erickson 1997 … [Read more…]