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"“Curious, sensible, [and] irreverent. Crichton comes to see his travels—both in mind and through country—as ways of getting in better touch with himself.” —Los Angeles Times"

"Kathy Bowman of World Wide Travel in Los Angeles, and Joyce Small of Adventures Unlimited in San Francisco."

"In 1971 I was living in Los Angeles and my wife was in La Jolla."

"But I manage to telex MGM in Los Angeles and order one."

"Brugh Joy was an eminent Los Angeles physician who had, through intensive meditation, moved progressively away from medicine into areas of personal growth, psychic healing, and so on."

"And then, in 1984, I heard that a trance medium named Gary was doing readings for people in Los Angeles."

"…an electronics engineer from Los Angeles,…"

"In 1972, I bought a house in the hills of Los Angeles. I moved into my house and was ecstatically happy for several months. One day I mentioned to a friend that I’d bought a house in the hills."

"Then they set up a fight against Arthur Ashley, in Los Angeles. Any of you guys see that fight? I did."

"He mentioned the name of a Los Angeles director, Barry Guardini, whom he’d met personally, but Fate had never seen any of Guardini’s movies"

"…if you keep walking far enough and keep an eye peeled, they say there’s lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles."

"After moving to Los Angeles to make his mark in the film industry, he’s produced tons of blockbuster movies—like The Town, Sicario, and the John Wick franchise—under the banner of his film production company, Thunder Road Films, named after Bruce Springsteen’s classic song “Thunder Road.”"

"Jordan Ritter: I was a paid hacker. I lived in downtown Boston, which was the center of hacking in the United States at the time: It wasn’t New York, it wasn’t LA, it wasn’t even Silicon Valley."

"Michael Crichton Los Angeles October 13, 1973"

"The secretary passed sheets around the room. It was a report from the LA Traffic Control Center on a form marked 'Federal Aviation Administration / REPORT OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT."

"LOS ANGELES, 2002"

"Commanding OfficerInternal Affairs DivisionLos Angeles Police DepartmentPO Box 2029Los Angeles, CA 92038-2029Telephone: (213) 555-7600Telefax: (213) 556-7812"

"… and glass walls on the outside walls as well, so that from where I was standing you could look straight out to the surrounding skyscrapers of Los Angeles."

"Of course. They already own Los Angeles,"

"It was one of those new standing booths that has two receivers, one on either side, allowing two people to talk on the same line at once. These booths had been installed in Tokyo years ago, and now were starting to show up all over Los Angeles."

"Ten years ago, the only people in Los Angeles who maintained such elaborate security were either Mafioso, or stars like Stallone whose violent roles attracted violent attention."

"I picked up a brochure from the coffee table. It was the annual report of Darley-Higgins Management Group, with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I found a picture of Arthur Greiman. He looked happy and self-satisfied. The report included an essay signed by him entitled, "A Commitment to Excellence."

"Greiman exploded in rage. "Oh, for Christ's sake. Not again. This is goddamned harassment." "Harassment?" "What would you call it? I've had senatorial staffers here, I've had the F.B.I. here. Now I have the L.A. police? We're not criminals. We own a company and we have the right to sell it. Where is Louis?"

"Keith just got a call from the Los Angeles representative for NHK, Japanese national television."

"She had been a gossip columnist in Washington before graduating to the big time in Los Angeles."

"I looked at the card. It said: Jonathan Connor, Captain, Los Angeles Police Department. Then I heard a whisper from the other side."

"…and the surrounding skyscrapers looked close, even in the L.A. haze."

"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."

"Further revelations by Morton’s staff, as well as by former members of the Los Angeles law firm of Hassle and Black, have added further detail to the story."

"Morton had flown all of them in from Los Angeles on his Gulfstream G5 jet, arriving in Keflavík airport at nine yesterday morning."

"It was now four a.m. in New York, one a.m. in Los Angeles."

"Her clothing was chic and out of place in casual Los Angeles—tight-fitting skirt, spike heels, Chanel jacket."

"At the center table, Ann Garner, who sat on the boards of environmental organizations, was arguing that Los Angeles needed to build more public transportation so that people could get out of their cars."

"TO LOS ANGELESTUESDAY, OCTOBER 512:02 P.M. Morton’s jet flew back to Los Angeles at noon."

"… everybody in LA has a few bad habits, otherwise we wouldn’t be here—"

"TO LOS ANGELESMONDAY, OCTOBER 116:25 P.M."

"“Okay. And why are we going to Los Angeles?” “Because that’s where the NERF Conference on Abrupt Climate Change is being held.”"

"TO LOS ANGELESFRIDAY, OCTOBER 82:22 P.M."

"TO LOS ANGELESFRIDAY, OCTOBER 83:27 P.M."

"LOS ANGELESSATURDAY, OCTOBER 911:04 A.M. In the hot midday sun, Kenner parked his car in the downtown lot and walked with Sarah out onto the street."

"He could never have imagined such a thing while living his daily life, going to work at his firm in Los Angeles."

"In Los Angeles federal district court."

"“The threat of abrupt climate change,” he said, “is so devastating for mankind, and for all life on this planet, that conferences are being convened all around the world to deal with it. There is a conference in Los Angeles starting tomorrow, where scientists will discuss what we can do to mitigate this terrible threat.”"

"TO LOS ANGELESTUESDAY, OCTOBER 1210:31 P.M."

"the final interview for his LA job, where he spilled soup all over his shirt and the partners pretended not to notice"

"And a bite’s not likely to be quickly recognized at a hospital in Los Angeles."

"We looked at stories in the newspapers of New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles, and Seattle."

"The plane rose above the cloud layer in Los Angeles, and turned west, over the Pacific."

"Texans would probably prefer to cover Los Angeles first."

"“Wait a minute,” he said. “What time is it in Los Angeles?”"

"“But I have to be in LA for my work,” Bradley said."

"Half an hour before they reached the California coast, they saw the spreading brown haze… The plane descended smoothly toward Los Angeles."

"‡  LA population is 14,531,000;"

"And “The Burning of Los Angeles,” a picture he was soon to paint, definitely proved he had talent."

"After living for a week in a railroad hotel in Los Angeles, he rented a cottage in Pinyon Canyon."

"In “The Burning of Los Angeles” Faye is the naked girl in the left foreground being chased by the group of men and women who have separated from the main body of the mob."

"He began to think about the series of cartoons he was making for his canvas of Los Angeles on fire."

"The town is Los Angeles."

"But by 1948 we had legitimate bars all over L.A."

"That’s fine. But you can’t walk to the station from here. It’s in Los Angeles."

"I ran away from Mouse and Texas to go to the army and then later to L.A."

"There was still a large strech of farmland between Los Angeles and Santa Monica in those days."

"AT FOUR IN THE MORNING the neighborhoods of Los Angeles are asleep."

"I’m in L.A., Etta."

"I found myself driving in the L.A. night again."

"I can’t leave L.A. Not before I talk to Frank. He should be back by now. I keep calling, though, and he’s not home."

"CHOW’S CHOW was a kind of Chinese diner that was common in L.A. back in the forties and fifties."

"LATER ON THAT EVENING Odell and I were having a dinner I threw together. We were sitting out front because it was still hot in L.A."

"The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London."

"One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Bunker Hill, down in the very middle of Los Angeles."

"The book is based on a true experience which happened to me one night in Los Angeles."

"We drove back to Los Angeles. We didn’t speak. She lit a cigarette and looked at me strangely, lips pursed."

"I sat with my teeth gritted, looking at a room like ten million California rooms, a bit of wood here and a bit of rag there, the furniture, with cobwebs in the ceiling and dust in the corners, her room, and everybody’s room, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, a few boards of plaster and stucco to keep the sun out."

"I got back to Los Angeles the next day. The city was the same, but I was afraid."

"He had left Los Angeles and gone to the edge of the Santa Ana desert. There he lived in a shack, writing feverishly."

"Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely."

"I took the bus back to Los Angeles. Making resolutions not to see her again was useless."

"Local police today were on the lookout for Camilla Lopez, 22, of Los Angeles, whose disappearance from the Del Maria institution was discovered by authorities last night."

"She couldn’t stay in Los Angeles. She needed rest, a chance to eat and sleep, drink a lot of milk and take long walks."

"Then I got into the car, started the engine, and drove back to Los Angeles."

"John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties."

"He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN, Los Angeles four years after his death from diabetes-related complications."

"‘If there’s a better piece of fiction written about LA I don’t know about it.’ Robert Towne, Scriptwriter for Chinatown"

"To hear the sound of her own footsteps Maria stood up and walked to the pay phone by the public toilet and asked the operator to try the number in Los Angeles again."

"It was five o’clock in Los Angeles and eight in New York and he was drunk."

"There hasn’t been a print in Los Angeles all week."

"Benny? Can you hear me? You come see me the next time you’re in Los Angeles, all right? Promise?"

"Early in the morning she called Freddy Chaikin from Los Angeles and asked him to pay her bill and bring back her clothes."

"Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head..."

"I said goodbye to Japhy and the others and hopped my freight back down the Coast to L.A."

"I only woke up rat about seven o'clock in the morning when the train was slowing down into the L.A. yards and the first thing I saw, as I was putting my shoes on and getting my stuff ready to jump off, was a yard worker waving at me and yelling 'Welcome to L.A.!"

"It took exactly the entire twenty-five miles to get out of the smog of Los Angeles; the sun was clear in Riverside."

"Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo"

"and left me off in Los Angeles a stone's throw from my railroad yards at nine o'clock in the morning"

"Im überschwemmten Duschraum sprach ihn ein kleiner Mexikaner an, der reglos unter der zweiten Brause stand. "Wie sind die Weiber hier?" "Nicht so gut. Wo kommst du her?" "L. A." "Wie sind die Weiber da?" "Ganz gut."

"Ich war mit Chavez in L. A., gegen Montoya – in der ersten Runde kriegt er ’nen Kopfstoß überm Auge und fängt an zu bluten, und ich denke, na ja, das war’s dann wohl."

"und an den Kampf eine Woche später in Los Angeles, wenn er diesen hier überstand."

"For my family of hundreds from Rubidoux to San Bernardino, Riverside to Sacramento, Los Angeles to Albany, Ontario to Echo Park, Anaheim to Los Feliz, Corona to Calexico."

"…unless we got a pursuit, and then we might go all the way to the desert, or through LA, or down toward San Diego, until the vehicle pulled over."

"My dad said, “She never saw this much dirt in her life. She would never last here, mijo. You better move there to LA. With her.”"

"“From LA,” Luz said. “LA women are never finished.”"

"After miles of houses and shopping malls, they entered steep hills and canyons near Los Angeles."

"Merry met a guy in LA, had a son named Tenerife, and her son was her life after they broke up."

"‘She lives in LA.’"

"Then we went to Los Angeles for the memorial service for Tenerife and his mom, Merry."

"Last summer, she’d been in LA all the time, staying with Tenerife’s mom after he got shot."

"Baseline and Meridian. The beginning of southern California, where some old white man had laid out the streets that went all the way to LA and Hollywood and Santa Monica."

"The grasshoppers of Los Angeles were gray monsters with razor legs and terrifying skulls that hit Ximena in the face when they flew from the roses."

"Morris sold fur coats in LA, San Francisco, and Vegas."

"There was someone in LA she never wanted to see."

"“My sons are waiting for me to pick them up in LA. It’s gonna take me four damn hours to get there, and they’re gonna be scared if I’m late.”"

"I returned to Los Angeles under the warm colorless sun over ubiquitous palmtrees."

"…you look like you could be—I was there once, L.A.—too many creeps for me, though: like a nuthouse."

"I guess maybe I should split—leave New York—go somewhere else: L.A., maybe."

"Smitty, you might say, had risen from the ranks: from gas station attendant, in Los Angeles; that's where he began—right in the station restroom."

"“dont you look so startled—this is L.A.! -and thank God for that! Even queens like me got certain rights!”"

"…and let me hasten to tell you before you hear it wrong from othuh sources that I am famous even in Los gay Angeles—why."

"Those first days in Los Angeles, I was newly dazzled by the world into which my compulsive journey through submerged lives had led me—newly hypnotized by the life of the streets."

"the night was miraculously clear as it rarely is in Los Angeles, and the moon hung sadly in the sky as unconcerned as the world, as we sexhuddled in the car with the three lost girls."

"And Los Angeles was dreary in the earlyhours with the sidewalks wet where theyve just watered them and the purplish haze of the early morning."

"Each morning the pale sun rose in the imitation-blue sky of Los Angeles, and the endless resurrection of each new day began."

"I returned to Los Angeles, to that same room on Hope Street, to that same roof at night—to the same maryjane daze whose miracles were slowly diminishing...."

"An I come on to L.A. an land in this here park.... Sergeant Morgan, hes the one that tole me what goes on."

"but soon I was back in Los Angeles."

"I knew this guy in L.A.—see —that I stayed with. . . . See, when I got outta the service, I made this Main Street scene. I met—lots of guys—you know -go with them—hang around here—Main Street—all the time...."

"There is a bar in Los Angeles a block from Pershing Square, on Sixth Street. It’s called the Hodge Podge."

"from the hot Los Angeles streets where the heat gathers in steaming pools;"

"For many, San Francisco is an escape, in that coffin-shaped state, from the restless neon-forest of Los Angeles."

"I get calls all the time from Los Angeles...."

"In the middle of summer I usually go to Los Angeles to see how things are going. Ive bought many fine items there."

"In the warm palm-treed Los Angeles nights, restlessly they will feel the secret excitement. In Harry’s, Wally’a Along the Main-Street-blocks-long arcade. In Pershing Square. Along winking Hollywood Boulevard. At Hooper’s in the stale greasy light...."

"And I think of Barbara, perhaps still somewhere in the maze of downtown Los Angeles...."

"“Here we are! Just in from Los gay Angeles!” Arms eagle-spread, there stands Lola, Miss Destiny’s ugly queenfriend from downtown Los Angeles."

"I remembered the man in Los Angeles who had almost begged me to rob him."

"…to the south lay the rest of Los Angeles, ad infinitum."

"I remember living next to the Y in Los Angeles, where I sunbathed on the roof of that apartment building, and by signals from the residents of the Y, I would meet them later on the street...."

"My mother still felt like a tourist in Mexico City then, and so does the young man in this picture—he is a young man in the first days of his Los Angeles adventure."

"Araceli had passed through here during her first days in Los Angeles, and the sight of the crowds of people with huge duffel bags and boxes tucked under their arms reminded her of that other, more innocent Araceli."

"The train had brought them to this place called Los Angeles, where the magical and the real, the world of fantasy books and history, seemed to coexist on the same extended stage of streets, rivers, and railroad tracks."

"ill‐advised journey to the center of Los Angeles, and finally to Huntington Park"

"…and we left for another place. In Los Angeles,” he said, his younger brother nodding alongside him."

"Liberated now from jail and from the worry of the fate of Brandon and Keenan, she could appreciate the journey away from Paseo Linda Bonita and into Los Angeles for its carnivalesque qualities."

"… that his Los Angeles newspaper would headline “Arrest, Anger, and Drama in Santa Ana,” accompanied by the breathless audio narration of Cynthia Villarreal: “Araceli Ramirez knew that she would soon be taken into custody…”"

"“When we went to L.A., everybody spoke in Spanish, mostly,” Keenan said."

"The mayor of Los Angeles daydreamed while ostensibly perusing the menu at his favorite downtown eatery."

"Clearly, the mayor believed that Los Angeles and the Laguna Rancho Estates rested atop the same shifting tectonic plates, and he spoke cautiously to keep his footing as the ground beneath him rumbled."

"including selected passages from the transcript of Brandon’s description of his days in the mystery‐land of Los Angeles."

"Los Angeles did not want to let her go; it kept its hold on her with its sprawl."

"The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children."

"That sum, I wrote to my aunt at summer’s end, paid for my bus ticket to Los Angeles, a few nights in a motel, the deposit on an apartment near Chinatown, and a used ’64 Ford."

"The sight of Bon waiting for me at the Los Angeles airport made me feel a little better."

"Rather than waste a dime and call her, I jumped into my car and drove across the great expanse of Los Angeles."

"He had found an isolated stretch of terrain to carry out the training and maneuvers for his nascent army, in the sun-exposed hills far east of Los Angeles, near a remote Indian reservation."

"Of American cities, she believed New York was where she wanted to live if she could not live in Los Angeles."

"LOS ANGELES—THURSDAY, the last day of April, is the 40th anniversary of the end of my war."

"She left a forwarding address--the Anibassador, Los Angeles."

"…a young black man working in the defense industry in Los Angeles during World War II."

"Outside the setting sun slanted from the south with a yellowish, old‐gold glow, and the air was warm and fragrant. It was the best part of the day in Los Angeles; the colours of flowers were more vivid, while the houses were less starkly white and the red‐tiled roofs were weathered maroon."

"I am a supervisor in the Los Angeles Department of Welfare,' she went on, enunciating each syllable with careful deliberation."

"Walter and I were just talking the other day about the tremendous change that's taken place in Los Angeles— 'Yes, it has,' I cut in rapidly. 'The city's really growing up."

"In the three years in L.A. I'd worked up to a good job in a shipyard, bought a new Buick car, and cornered off the finest coloured chick west of Chicago—to my way of thinking."

"But dragging him to the garage, to his own car and driving that off into one of the hundred odd lonely canyons around Los Angeles would be a good way to dispose of him for days or even for weeks."

"… flash gambling for flash people. The local law in your pocket and a well‐greased line into L.A. In other words, protection."

"Traveling through. On the way to L.A. How far is it?"

"I was driving hard along the highway through the rain, with Silver-Wig in the corner of the car, saying nothing, so that by the time we reached Los Angeles we seemed to be utter strangers again."

"Keith looekdaround more thananyone as we rdoe. His ma bition, if you coducl all it that, is to get out of theneighborhoodandgotoLosAngeles. He'snevertoo clear abou twhat he'll dohet re."

"Like Keith, he had wanted to escape the dullness of Robledo for big city excitement. L.A. was beetrtthen--less lethal. Helivedtherefor21years."

"And we saw whole blockbsooarfdedupbuildingsburning inLosAngeles."

"…if you want to. aIrt'ys, sbcut once you get past the feare,asity's. In L.A. some weadll communitiesbiggerandstrongerthanthisonejustaren't there any more. Nothing left but rnusi, rats, andsquatters.Whathappenedtothemcanhappento us. We'll die hinereunlesswe get waystosurvive."

"I used it to buy food. Then I dswtaartlkeingot ward L.A."

"Olivar, incorporated in the 1890s, is just one more beach/bedroom suburb of Los Angeles, small nad wel-to-do."

"Olivarl,ocated betweentheseaandLosAngeles,is gettinganinfluxofsaltwaterfromonedirectionand desperatepoorpeople fromtheother."

"Most peoplesuspectedithadbeguninLosAngeles where,accordingtothem,moststupidorwickedthingsbegan."

"He'd never even make it out of L.A."

"GOLDEN DAYS CAROLYN SE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley • Los Angeles • London"

"1. Nuclear warfare—California—Los Angeles—Fiction."

"2. Friendship—California—Los Angeles—Fiction."

"3. Women— California—Los Angeles—Fiction."

"in the parched and arid heart of Los Angeles."

"Los Angeles, in 1980, was a different city from the one I’d left."

"…all the overlapping city limits that made up Los Angeles had left one lawless hole."

"And so, at the age of thirty-eight, I came back to L.A., I came back."

"And in six months I was a member of the board of what was going to be L.A.’s Third Women’s Bank, if Skip’s boys could get it off the ground."

"Back in L.A., Skip finally made an appointment to go in to the doctor."

"David Mandlebaum (you may have seen him twenty years later on local television; he turned out to be the "spokesman for independent taxi drivers in Los Angeles"), and he’d had a cold for close on to a week."

"I think of Loma in some motel room in Alhambra or El Monte, the poor southeast agricultural dregs of Los Angeles, sweating under the form of our American literature professor, staring at the ceiling, considering her thirties, coming soon, and with them the end of youth."

"IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, YOU HAD THE SENSE THAT there was nothing you couldn’t do in L.A."

"All we knew when he left L.A. was that Lion had it in his mind to materialize those wristwatches."

"Why should anyone lie—even in this climate of domestic unrest—in the blistering Los Angeles heat, for minutes or hours, to grab the ankle of a middle-aged woman, no matter how well cared for and how prosperous?"

"We found, in fact, that the dry climate of L.A. lent itself to this ancient way of taking away the dead: let them lie there and dry, seemed to be what people said later that they had done."

"she has a Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA, where she is an adjunct professor of English."

"When he got home, Dene’s mom, Norma, told him that his uncle Lucas was coming for a visit, up from Los Angeles."

"we come from Phoenix, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, New York City, Pine Ridge, Fort Apache, Gila River, Pit River, the Osage Reservation, Rosebud, Flathead, Red Lake, San Carlos, Turtle Mountain, the Navajo Reservation."

"Then one day Lucas got on a bus and moved down to Los Angeles."

"He’d been in Los Angeles nearly two years now, and he’d never really thought about it before, but they were everywhere, these men, ubiquitous, silently going about their business..."

"When he graduates, he is accepted in a doctoral program at UCLA."

"He was born in 1964 and raised in Los Angeles."

"“Ellis takes you down and down into a nothingness called L.A … that puts no value on anything.”"

"“Startling and hypnotic … a haunting, evocative portrait of a kind of L.A. life almost too turbulent to believe.”"

"People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles."

"some little girls are singing about an earthquake in L.A. “My surfboard’s ready for the tidal wave.”"

"she might or might not be coming out to L.A.;"

"Except for a young couple, not from L.A., taking pictures of the footprints and this suspicious-looking Oriental guy standing by the ticket booth, there’s no one around."

"It begins to rain in L. A. I read about the houses falling, slipping down the hills in the middle of the night and I stay up all night, usually wired on coke, until early morning to make sure nothing happens to our house."

"Blair’s father is having this party for a young Australian actor whose new film is opening in L.A. next week."

"“Are you in L.A. for long?” Julian asks. “No, no, just a week, for business.” … “Do you like living in L.A?” “Yeah. I love L.A.,” Julian says, folding his pants."

"Kids from L.A. and San Francisco and Sacramento would come down for the weekend and stay for the party."

"The week before I leave, I listen to a song by an L.A. composer about the city."

"She told me that I hurt her; that I promised I was going to stay in L.A.; that I promised I would never go back East."

"There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group."

"Young men—California—Los Angeles—Fiction."

"… whose scholarship for “underprivileged girls” helped pay for my undergraduate education at Immaculate Heart College."

"the members of the former L.A. Latino Writers Association"

"Doc had become a great connoisseur of the bars in Los Angeles where prostitution took place in a frank and natural manner."

"When we’d first moved to LA, Jackson heard the horn of the vegetable truck that parked on our street and went running outside to see what the commotion was."

"I felt free of Kurt Kennedy in Los Angeles, though several times I had to double-take men who shared his generally repulsive physical qualities, thick bunched calves, ruddy skin, bald and dented cranium, and once I mistakenly thought I heard the gravelly voice."

"Put their bodies in his trunk, and eject them into the dumping ground of desert between LA and Vegas."

"“Coyotes had lived in the alley behind the place I’d sublet in Los Angeles. They trotted along the sidewalk past our house in the middle of the day.”"

"She lives in Los Angeles."

"…one of the first black families to settle in southwest Los Angeles, I can trace my roots all the way back to that first vessel to escape state‐sanctioned southern repression—the Greyhound bus."

"We lived in Dickens, a ghetto community on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, and as odd as it might sound, I grew up on a farm in the inner city."

"“In the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, do you know how many officers have been convicted of murder while in the line of duty?”"

"Occasionally, a pack of college kids vacationing in Los Angeles for the first time would stop at a busy intersection just long enough to shoot twenty seconds of shaky handheld video of them jumping up and down, whooping like crazed savages, shouting, 'Check us out! We’re in Dickens, California. What you know about that, fool?' then post the footage of their urban safari on the Internet."

"…as in the case of the corner fronting the L.A. LGBTDL Crisis Center for Chicanos, Blacks, Non-Gays, and Anyone Else Who Feels Underserved, Unsupported, and Exploited by Hit Cable Television Shows…"

"I love L.A. It’s the only place where you can go skiing, to the beach and to the desert all in one day white."

"Los Angeles, for whatever reason, is chock‐full of autistic children and I thought he was one of the afflicted."

"From the music clubs to the jailhouses to the fact that you can find Korean taco trucks only in white neighborhoods, L.A. is a mind-numbingly racially segregated city."

"Watching Hominy at the L.A. Festival of Forbidden Cinema and Unabashedly Racist Animation, on the Nuart big screen"

"If we wanted our usual seats, we had to get there earlier and earlier, because word was spreading throughout black L.A. that a funny motherfucker was hosting the open-mike nights."

"Sitting on the floor of my house in Los Angeles with guidebooks opened all around me, I had said to Loren, 'Hey, look at this, we can climb Kilimanjaro."

"Four days later they were on a plane to Los Angeles, where they caught a connecting flight to Tucson."

"L.A. has four homicides a day; there's another one every six hours."

"The Los Angeles Times is the most profitable newspaper in America. The newsroom takes up one entire floor of the Times building, and thus is the area of a city block."

"Connor waved from an elegant, tiny sushi bar and said, 'Say hello to Imae. The best sushi chef in Los Angeles. Imae-san, Sumisu-san."

"LOS ANGELESMONDAY, AUGUST 234:09 P.M. The iron gates swung open, and the car drove up the shaded driveway to the house that slowly came into view."

"“Peter, you never ask a lady that question. Especially in LA.”"

"“Mr. Albright and me go way back. You know he prob’ly my oldest friend from L.A. Yeah, we go ways back.”"

"A cop won’t pick you up for vagrancy in Los Angeles if you wear a fancy polo shirt and a pair of sunglasses."

"“Dear Maria,” the note read. “Well don’t know when I’ll get over to LA but wanted to give you a telephone where you can call if you are in Nevada again or need help."

"Both Lee and Cal tried to argue Adam out of going to meet the train, the Lark night train from San Francisco to Los Angeles."

"The way they said the words here, in Los Angeles. Mom. Mommy."

"I have heard hes now in Los Angeles—Im not sure—Ive heard he works in a bar—... Its been so many years.... Maybe he has soared to Heaven to bring Beauty to that drab place...."

"Yet Skipper (drunk somewhere in downtown Los Angeles ... remembering the deceptive past) had discovered that it was the scores who had swallowed him."

"The Big Man lived in Los Angeles, on its Westside"

"…in front of a bungalow in a city that Araceli guessed was Los Angeles in the 1940s or 1950s."

"Through the smoky glass of the sport-utility vehicle, Araceli watched freeway destination signs pass overhead. SAN DIEGO. LOS ANGELES. NEWPORT BEACH."

"The portraits of the grandfather, el viejo Torres, called out to her most loudly, smiling wryly from the final decades of black-and-white photography—a teenager standing before a Los Angeles bungalow, his swarthy skin rendered in tones of gray and darker gray, hands on his hips and an irresistible twinkle in his eye."

"She felt this same unsettled sense when she first entered the center of Los Angeles with Brandon and Keenan,"

"…a madras shirt bought at a J. C. Penney in Los Angeles."

"…the names of the dead that Harry had written on the tombstones, copied from the Los Angeles phonebook and attached to people presumably still alive."

"…so the L.A. cops were already looking for me; that meant I’d have to keep out of public places."

"When, safely back in L.A., I told her she couldn’t be invisible, she wouldn’t let up on me for several weeks, arranging to meet me on crowded corners..."

"Lettuce? Fruit? This isn’t Bakersfield, this is L.A. There’s no fruit here. No cotton, no nothing."

"He’d been caught three times before—once in L.A., once in Arizona, and then with America just over the Tijuana fence."

"when the potatoes ran out he made his way south to Los Angeles because his friend Hilario had a cousin in Canoga Park and there was plenty of work there."

"But here, in the bleached hills above Los Angeles, fall was just another aspect of the eternal summer, hotter, drier, hurled through the canyons on the breath of winds that leached all the moisture from the chaparral and brought combustible oils to the surface of every branch and twig."

"When I’d moved to Los Angeles three years earlier, that amusement park had seemed like the gateway to my new life. It was the first big vision off the freeway hurtling south, bright and ugly and exciting…"

"The doorman, big bearded guy, said, 'You’re looking for Vanessa, right? She left a message for you, said to give you her address.' She had moved to Los Angeles."

"Decades later on, a seasonally indeterminate afternoon in a supposedly unsegregated section of Los Angeles, California, Hominy Jenkins couldn’t wait to give up his seat to a white person."

"“We’re happy to have processed your application for International Municipal Sisterhood, but we can’t seem to find Dickens on the map. It’s near Los Angeles, right?”"