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| Ry Cooder Follows Stellar New CD With New Book Of LA Stories Ry Cooder's trenchant new album 'Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down' - called a "masterpiece" by WXPN and one of "his best albums ever" by Uncut - explores the underbelly of the American polity, but Cooder's creative year doesn't stop there. San Francisco's City Lights Books will release his first collection of short fiction, 'Los Angeles Stories, ' in October. 'Los Angeles Stories' is a collection of loosely linked tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were being made, a do-it-yourself culture of cool cats, outsiders and oddballs populated the old downtown neighborhoods of Bunker Hill and Chavez Ravine. Ordinary working folks rubbed elbows with petty criminals, grifters and all sorts of women at foggy end-of-the-line outposts in Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Rich with the essence and character of the times, suffused with patois of the city's underclass, these are stories about the common people of Los Angeles, "a sunny place for shady people, " and the strange things that happen to them. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |