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.'
For our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, we asked writers with deep ties to the city to name their favorite Los Angeles books across eight categories or genres. Based on 95 responses, here are the 16 most essential L.A. literary novelsfrom “The Day of the Locust” to “If He Hollers Let Him Go,” “Play it as it Lays” to “Interior Chinatown.”, whose fees support independent bookstores.Raised in Amherst, Jackson was a widely-read travel writer, novelist and poet.
. Noted 20th century critics dismissed the book, but recent scholars have revisited it as a muckraking romance. — CK
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