by Kim Cooper | Jul 26, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Written by Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and designed by acclaimed illustrator Paul Rogers, this new, noir map from U.K. wayfinding mavens Herb Lester is a must for those who seek lost Los Angeles. Click here to purchase. In 1985, the husband-and-wife team of Aaron...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 1, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
Happy 1950 U.S. Census release day! It’s 72 years since enumerators with cute little clipboards and mechanical pencils fanned out across post-war America and asked every soul they could buttonhole for their stats. A decade ago, I blogged about the 1940 Census...
by Kim Cooper | Jul 23, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
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.
by Kim Cooper | Jul 21, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
On July 23, 1888, Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago, a smart, sensitive kid dealt a strange deck that would, in time, make him the great chronicler of the dark side of the California dream. Join me in celebrating the master’s 128th birthday with a...
