Southern California, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

Referenced In

Travels
by Michael Crichton, Baber, E. C. Baber

"I was given a street address in southern California, and told to bring a half-dozen forks and spoons I didn’t care about, since they would be bent during the evening."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"On that same day, there was news of wildfires in Southern California, the dense smoke reaching all the way to Nevada."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"the flames engulfing Southern California"

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"Today’s internet started with the ARPANET, and the ARPANET started with two nodes, and one of them was in Southern California and the other one was at Menlo Park in Doug Engelbart’s Augment project."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"They know what Southern California’s like."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"CITY OF NIGHT  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHICH IS SHAPED SOMEWHAT like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way...."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"Summer, which in Southern California does not come Magically as it does in the East."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"…I’m not at all sure he’s a cop—not because of what he said (Southern California is notorious for entrapment—they’ll even offer you money and bust you later)…"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Several hours later the mayor was in East Hollywood, at a memorial service for one of the last remaining survivors in Southern California of the Armenian genocide."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"There I passed six idyllic years in the dreamy, sun‐besotted world of Southern California during the sixties."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"He was so anti-red in his politics he might as well have been green, one reason he was one of the few politicians in Southern California to greet the refugees with open arms"

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Then I was on the street, breathing in the Southern Californian air, fine-grained with the particulates of smog, heady with the realization that I could go wherever I wanted."

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"Now its ppoularity is gr owing. And idnry-as-straw southern California, itcancausearealorgyofburning."

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"Nice country, and comapred to Souhtern California, rihccountry. More water, more food, more room. . ."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I suppose selfishly I’d have to say that marked my first real entrée into the highest level of southern California society."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"Born and raised in southern California, she has a Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA,"

Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena Maria Viramontes

"the current members of the Southern California Latino/a Writers and Filmmakers, Inc., my sincere thanks."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"the two more immediate goals in my life, segregating Dickens and raising a successful potato crop in Southern California."