From left: Altadena residents Michelle Huneven and Patricia O'Sullivan with Naomi Hirahara (who writes about an Altadena-based gardenr/detective) pose at the Prospect Park Media offices in Pasadena on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The writers' collaboration "Literary Pasadena" was released in April 2013.
By Steve Appleford
Pasadena Sun
Pasadena Sun
The literary bona fides of Pasadena have never been much in doubt. It's a small, sophisticated town with a hunger for words and the people who write them, from the old adventure novels of Altadena resident Zane Gray to the modern hard-boiled fiction of Denise Hamilton. Now, in celebration of that lineage, comes "Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition."
The book is a collection of contemporary fiction, mixing short stories and excerpts from novels — some original, some previously published — by authors currently living in the Crown City, who grew up there or who write about the city as if it were their own.
"There's a surprisingly large community of writers in this area," says Patricia O'Sullivan, the book's editor. "We were blown away by the quality of work that we have. We could easily do a second volume."
