Product Description: Sidewalking

Product Description: A middle-aged man, now living in Los Angeles, returns on a business trip to San Francisco, where he lived when he was much younger and less conventionality attached. In the course of three days in the city, he confronts the echoes of his history, both in the patterns of the streets he obsessively wanders and in a strange interaction with a couple of old friends, who bring him face-to-face with this own unfinished past...read more

Product Description: Requiem is a "folk opera, a lament for the unexamined life," writes editor and author David L. Ulin in his Introduction, "marked throughout by its own quiet tone of authority, which works to peel back the surface of what we imagine and examine what is going on underneath...read more

Explores how an unlikely collection of scientists, psychics, and doomsday prophets have made accurate earthquake predictions based on a wide range of empirical and otherworldly signs, observing how the practice of earthquake prediction reflects a human need for control. Reprint.

Product Description: Robert Flick's work extends the same visual, philosophical and theoretically fertile tradition set by the highly influential and iconoclastic Robert Heinecken. But while Heinecken's emphasis can be said to rely on the manner in which images function within the intersection of popular culture and the fine arts, Flick has characteristically concentrated more intently on the artifactual, conceptual and receptive properties of photography--specifically landscape photography...read more

Collects short fictional works and excerpts, poetry, essays, journalism, and diary entries on the City of Light as contributed by top authors, in a volume that considers such topics as the city's history, culture, police force, ecosystems, and architecture. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Thirty-seven LA writers map the scattered and diverse literary landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the entertainment industry and earthquakes, riots and racism, fires and freaks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Dissension between her and the rest of her band Garage Grrrls threatens to wreck ten-year-old Jen's dream of becoming a rock star.

Product Description: Poetry. "In these diary-like 'scrawlings,' David L. Ulin confronts the past and the future, and winds up dead center, in the solitary NOW. With spontaneity and openness, Ulin beats the clock and makes the present a more comfortable place for all of us"—David Trinidad.