Tag: Horace McCoy

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

Undoing One of Los Angeles’ Literary Myths

Back in the days when I was a young, impressionable college student, one of my Literature professors told a story in class that really stuck with me. We were talking about Los Angeles literature, something I found interesting but didn’t know much about yet. He told the class about how F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West came…
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September 12, 2014 0

A Lost Angelino

I first came across a reference to Don Ryan when I was reading Kevin Starr’s Americans and the California Dream series, a remarkable history of California. Starr identified Don Ryan’s Angel’s Flight as one of the first novels about Los Angeles and Hollywood, and since that was the focus of my dissertation, I sought out…
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October 13, 2012 0