This chapter endeavors to acknowledge that, while English-language writing has come to dominate assessments of LA’s literary history, that city is and always has been, like the city itself, a polyglot one. Cutler and Leong present writing in Japanese and Spanish as defining examples of LA literary multilingualism. In the histories of LA’s Spanish-speaking and Japanese-speaking populations, the chapter identifies fiction, poetry, and periodicals as key (and interrelated) forms of literary production – enabling communities to recognize themselves and collectively reflect upon ambiguous relations to Los Angeles and America at large. Novels by Daniel Venegas and Shōson Nagahara are explored, but Cutler and Leong also explain how newspapers and chronicles have represented shared translocal experiences, not only in the form of conventional reporting on current events but also as venues for poetry.