Character Flaw, World-Building & Writing the Apocalypse

Character Flaw, World-Building & Writing the Apocalypse<br />The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West - Los Angeles Public Library<br />Charles Yu, and Edan Lepucki; Moderator: Scott Timberg<br /><br />The literature of Los Angeles has long been a literature of bleed-through, where pop culture tropes mix with more literary concerns. How does this reflect the place itself and its prevailing sensibilities - reinvention and the sense of living on the edge?