5.18 Los Angeles in Fiction

Four months after first arriving in LA, I have now read five and a half books set here (some on purpose, some by accident). In this episode I talk about how these books have influenced and informed my experience of LA as a city. I hope you enjoy x

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The Books

• The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald, 1949

• In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, 1947

• The Perishing by Natashia Deón, 2021

• Southland by Nina Revoyr, 2003

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, 2022

• Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins, 2022

Other episodes on LA / Hollywood

• 5.17 Hollywood: Myth vs. Reality

• 5.12 I Watched 7 Old Movies in 7 Days

• 5.6 Anatomy of a 90s Literary Teen Movie Adaptation

• 3.21 Reading Like Marilyn Monroe for a Month

• 1.17 Visiting the Los Angeles Public Library

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