Isolation and 'Incredible Loneliness' Define L.A.

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Isolation and 'Incredible Loneliness' Define L.A.
The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West - Los Angeles Public Library
Lisa See, Naomi Hirahara, Lynell George, and Hector Tobar; Moderator: Brighde Mullins

Writers are from Los Angeles or they are not. Writers are at home here or they are, in myriad forms, exiles or exiled. How do ideas of nativity, naturalization, and exile inform contemporary writers?