{"id":1378,"date":"2014-11-05T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-world-of-raymond-chandler-in-his-own-words-talk-book-signing-and-walking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/11\/05\/the-world-of-raymond-chandler-in-his-own-words-talk-book-signing-and-walking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"“The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words” talk, book signing and walking tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

To sign up for this free event: <\/strong>First register<\/a> as a user on this site, and then return to this page. Refresh the page and the signup tab will appear just to the left. Enter your email address. No plus-ones; each guest must register individually.<\/p>\n

LAVA<\/span> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Los Angeles Visionaries Association and The Larry Edmunds Bookshop<\/a> invite you to join Barry Day for a celebration of his new book, The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words<\/a><\/em> (Random House). Space is extremely limited and reservations required for this free event.<\/p>\n

Barry Day will give a short illustrated talk about Raymond Chandler and his new book, answer questions and sign books.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the signing, LAVA<\/span> co-founders and Raymond Chandler historians Richard Schave<\/a> (host of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place<\/a><\/em>) & <\/span>Kim Cooper<\/a> (author of <\/span>The Kept Girl<\/a><\/em> and <\/span>The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles<\/a><\/em>) <\/span>will lead a free hour-long walking tour of Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downtown, ending at the King Eddy Saloon with a tour of the genuine prohibition speakeasy in its basement. Locations will include the Oviatt Building (called The Treolar Building in <\/span>The Lady in the Lake<\/a><\/em>), the Barclay Hotel (site of an icepick murder in <\/span>The Little Sister<\/a><\/em>), and numerous points of interest along the way. Please note that the walking tour will not return to its starting point, but it will be a short walk back at each guest’s leisure. <\/span><\/p>\n

ABOUT<\/span> BARRY<\/span> DAY<\/span>: Barry Day is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA<\/span>) and a trustee of the No\u00c3\u00abl Coward Foundation. In addition to his seven previous books on No\u00c3\u00abl Coward, he has written about Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Johnny Mercer, and Rodgers & Hart. Day was awarded the OBE<\/span> (Order of the British Empire) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for services to British culture in the United States.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

ABOUT<\/span> THE<\/span> NEW<\/span> BOOK<\/span>: Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand around\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor of The Letters of No\u00c3\u00abl Coward<\/a><\/em> (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect…  the book is meticulous, artfully structured\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsplendid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dDaniel Mendelsohn; The New York Review of Books<\/em>), has cannily, deftly chosen from Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing, as well as the many interviews he gave over the years as he achieved cult status, to weave together an illuminating narrative that reveals the man, the work, the worlds he created. Using Chandler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own words as well as Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s text, here is the life of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the man with no home,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, and the changing vernacular of the cultural psyche that resulted. Chandler makes clear what it is to be a writer, and in particular what it is to be a writer of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hardboiled\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fiction in what was for him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153another language.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, W. Somerset Maugham, and others (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I wish,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Chandler, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had one of those facile plotting brains, like Erle Gardner\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).<\/p>\n

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