L.A. is epidemically everywhere and discernible only in glimpses.
– James Ellroy, “James Ellroy Comes Home,” 2006
It occurs to her that what she most appreciates about this City of the Angels is that which is missing, the voids, the unstitched borders, the empty corridors, the not yet deciphered. She is grateful for the absence of history.
– Kate Braverman, Palm Latitudes, 1988