The Californication of Pulp Fiction

" I smelled Los Angeles before I got to it," he says. "It smelled stale and old like a living room that had been closed too long. But the colored lights fooled you. The Lights were wonderful. There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights." - Leland, 99. Los Angeles is a place of deception, a place of glamor, and corruption. Writer's thrived off of this setting. It is a place were dreams come true, but most fall short, and end up destroying any bit on integrity they had in their body. Writer's found that people ended up becoming the city and did anything and everything to try to get to the top, but usually never succeeded. " Pulp found its fertile crescent in California... the writers were far from home, often scorched by their experience in the war, and driven to the edge of the continent in search of something." "Playing against the popular image of California as a land of sunshine and opportunity, pulp writers recast the state as a dark, violent place where the outcast, drifters, and grifters dug in after they ran out of room to run." - Leland, 97