Kate Braverman — American Novelist
Kate Braverman is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was raised in Los Angeles, which is the focus for much of her writing... (wikipedia)
There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
