At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday, I got a chance to sit down with novelist and nonfiction writer Judith Freeman to discuss the lure of Southern California as a literary landscape, ...

“The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words” wallops the reader with a blizzard of quotes from his novels, stories, letters and essays. The snippets number in the hundreds (at least), they tend ...

Late novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler’s last book, “Playback,” is set in the fictitious town Esmerelda, but those who read it will find some striking similarities to La Jolla. Esmerelda, ...

Author and screenwriter Raymond Chandler has already left a mark on Hollywood, but that mark is about to become a lot more literal. In 2015 Chandler will get his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman Chandler, best remembered for ...

During slow stretches at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, Owen Hill says he and other staffers often entertained each other by quoting favorite lines from the work of Raymond Chandler, that legendary writer ...

First, however, it’s useful to outline the differences between the two genres. Works of literary impersonation, like Banville’s, are often given a seal of approval by the original author’s estate. The ...

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