L.A.'s 16 essential works of literary fiction, from 'The Day of the Locust' to 'If He Hollers Let Him Go,' 'Play it as it Lays' to 'Interior Chinatown.'
95 writers with deep ties to Los Angeles weighed in on the L.A. books that affected them most. Beyond our big list, here are some of their greatest insights
I want to ride to the ridge where the West commencesAnd gaze at the moon till I lose my sensesAnd I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher, 1934I wade through water and I wade through mudEvery time I calm down it’s a bucket o’ blood Dixie chain gang field holler…gone ballistic, not home but bloodon the range… Wanda Coleman, American Sonnet