{"id":1384,"date":"2014-11-18T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:49:06","slug":"pasadena-public-library-talk-kim-cooper-and-richard-schave-on-the-kept-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/11\/18\/pasadena-public-library-talk-kim-cooper-and-richard-schave-on-the-kept-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasadena Public Library Talk: Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on “The Kept Girl”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us in the gorgeous National Register Pasadena Central Library, as true crime historian\/novelist Kim Cooper discusses and reads from “The Kept Girl”<\/a><\/span> (Esotouric Ink, 2014), a 1920s mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler, his devoted secretary and the real-life Philip Marlowe all on the trail of a murderous cult of angel worshippers. <\/span>Accompanying Kim is husband Richard Schave, her partner in <\/span>Esotouric bus adventures<\/a> and <\/span>LAVA – the Los Angeles Visionaries Association<\/a>, and the designer of this 1940s-inspired paperback, the debut publication of their L.A.-centric press, Esotouric Ink. <\/span>Kim’s illustrated talk will draw on her years of research into the lost lore of Los Angeles, with a focus on the bizarre Great Eleven cult, which ensnared dozens of credulous Angelenos in their mystical rites before one disgruntled ex-believer brought the whole enterprise tumbling down. You’ll hear about Raymond Chandler’s pre-literary life as an oil company executive, the idealistic L.A. policeman who is a likely model for Philip Marlowe, the real woman who inspired the character of Chandler’s secretary Muriel, and the terrible secrets revealed by the fraud investigation in the Great Eleven’s activities. <\/span>Richard will share insights into how he used cutting edge computing tools to evoke the look and feel of a mid-century book, and Kim will talk abut the deluxe Art Deco wraps created for the Subscribers, whose pre-publication support covered a big chunk of the print cost.  <\/span>The talk will be followed by a Q&A, and copies of “The Kept Girl”<\/span> and “The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles”<\/a> <\/span>will be available for purchase and signing by the author.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Join us in the gorgeous National Register Pasadena Central Library, as true crime historian\/novelist Kim Cooper discusses and reads from “The Kept Girl” (Esotouric Ink, 2014), a 1920s mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler, his devoted secretary and the real-life Philip Marlowe all on the trail of a murderous cult of angel worshippers. Accompanying Kim is husband […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,8,13,14,21,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}