Our Kim Cooper has a knack for rooting out facts about Raymond Chandler that other scholars miss.
New on her The Kept Girl blog, war archives reveal Chandler to be one of the fortunate survivors of the Spanish flu pandemic.
Upcoming Salons & Seminars
Upcoming Tours
- Lowdown On Downtown – Saturday, January 18
- South LA Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Aeropace — Saturday, January 25
- Special Event: The Visionary World of Millard Sheets: Landmarks & Lore of Claremont and Pomona — Sunday, Jan. 26
- Birth Of Noir: James M. Cain’s Southern California Nightmare — Saturday, February 1
- Boyle Heights & Monterey Park: The Hidden Histories of L.A.‘s Melting Pot – Saturday, February 15
- In A Lonely Place: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles – Saturday, February 22
- Route 66 Road Trip: Roadside Architecture, Citrus, Drive-Ins & Cemeteries – Saturday, February 29
- Wilshire Boulevard Death Trip Tour — Saturday, March 14
- Special Event: Mansonland — Saturday, March 21
- Blood & Dumplings — Saturday, April 4
- The Real Black Dahlia — Saturday, April 11
- John Fante: Dreams From Bunker Hill—Saturday, April 18
- Haunts of a Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles—Saturday, April 25
- Special Event: Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.—Saturday, May 2