LOS ANGELES

"Los Angeles never gives the impression of being turned toward the open sea, as coastal cities usually are. For all that, it doesn't seem to turn its gaze inland either. In fact, the city appears to look at its self, to feed its own image. It's perhaps for this reason that some of the biggest movie studios are found here."

—page 337, "American Diary" by Eric Laurrent, as found in Best European Fiction 2011