Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler hated was that ubiquitous Los Angeles demographic: “actors.” The list, simply titled “THINGS I HATE,” was one of ...

Mike Davis shaped generations of thinking about Los Angeles and its origins. Oct. 25, 2022 “What did it matter where you lay once you were dead?” Raymond Chandler muses in the closing pages of ...

Clearly Raymond Chandler, the quintessential Los Angeles noir writer, had been to Palm Springs. He knew every inch of Los Angeles and described it in perfect detail, making his name synonymous ...

Although readers usually associate Raymond Chandler with the mean streets of Los Angeles, the Chicago-born writer did, in fact, spend much of his early life in England. He attended Dulwich College ...