"L.A. JOURNAL": some stories about some guys doing the best they can in the Nowhere City

There has always been a lot of confusion and misconception regarding the short-story. What exactly is it? What exactly defines it? And if a true literary artiste is capable of churning out a whole novel, why waste time on a bunch of stories in the first place?

C. Bradford Eastland, author of the groundbreaking novel Where Gods Gamble, answers all these questions and more in his masterwork collection of short fiction, “L.A. Journal”.

Throughout the twenty-two stories of this nostalgic, regio...