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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Annotated and edited by Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson and Anthony Dean Rizzuto Vintage Books, $25, 512 pages “Raymond Chandler once wrote that ’some literary antiquarian of a rather special type may one ...

When there’s so much going wrong in the real world, it can feel like a relief to escape into the wrongs of another world. Why else would crime fiction be having a moment right now? The Netflix series ...