 Returning to Los Angeles, he was hired as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications and eventually became managing editor of RIP, a heavy-metal music magazine.He later edited textbooks before becoming managing editor of Radio & Records, a radio-industry trade magazine.Lange is the author of the novels "The Smack" (Little, Brown/Mulholland 2017), "Angel Baby" (Little, Brown/Mulholland, 2013), which won the 2013 Hammett Prize, and "This Wicked World" (Little, Brown, 2009) and the short story collections "Sweet Nothing" (Little, Brown/Mulholland, 2015) and "Dead Boys" (Little, Brown, 2007).