The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

It is interesting that I have been able to review two books focused on the city of Los Angeles for this journal this year. The first was A Companion to Los Angeles (Deverell and Hise, 2010) (RR 2010/346), which examined the city of Los Angeles from a wide variety of topics and critical themes. This book focuses specifically on the literature produced in Los Angeles throughout its illustrious history, from its discovery in 1769 by Spanish explorers up to the present. It starts with short biographical notes on the various contributors, and then provides a wonderful chronological...