Hermosa writer draws on Sweetwater, Balboa Island
“St. James Infirmary,” by Steven Meloan (Roadside Press, 78 pp, $15) by Kevin Cody Steve Meloan writes his first memory of Los Angeles upon driving out from the east was “the distant roar of traffic, which I imagined to be the ocean.” Meloan settled for a time in Hermosa Beach, a fact made evident by the settings of many of his short stories in his newly published “St. James Infirmary.” “Sweetwater was a local club…. with a feathered animal skull mounted high above the stage, like something out of an early Eagles album,” he writes in “Hold me tighter.” Steven Meloan will read from his recently published collection of short stories on Friday, September 15 at 8:30 p.m. at Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica. Photo courtesy of Roadside Press The story recounts performing at the now legendary Harbor Drive club where Vince Gill, and The Sweethearts of the Rodeo (one of whom Gill married), performed, and going home one night with “a beach girl — low cut tube top, and faded jeans with stylishly placed tears.” At her home, the girl falls asleep before anything can happen. Most of the 14 stories in Meloan’s collection are told in the first person, suggesting they are semi autobiographical. But…
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