[ALOUD] at Central Library
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:00 PM
RICHARD RAYNER
A Bright & Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption,
and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
ShareIn conversation with David L. Ulin, LA Times Book Editor
Tabloid crimes, the Roaring 20's, and the onset of the Depression form the backdrop of Rayner's captivating tale of how the City of Angels lost its soul.
Richard Rayner is the author of Drake's Fortune, The Cloud Sketcher, The Associates, and several other books. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere regularly. He lives in Los Angeles.
David L. Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith, and the editor of Another City: Writing from Los Angeles and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
