LA Times Festival of Books: The Stars Come Out
Check out my coverage of the
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books with thirteen--count 'em, thirteen--author photos over on
The Huffington Post.
(And that's not even counting the bonus photo shown above of
Gayle Lynds,
Denise Hamilton and
Naomi Hirahara at the
Mystery Bookstore pre-party.)
Evita Plays Oakland?
Travel writer
Wayne Bernhardson, who is author of the
Moon Handbooks to Buenos Aires, Chile, Argentina, and Patagonia, has a nice post on my latest novel,
The Big Wake-Up, over on his Moon Handbook blog. Check it out
here.
I particularly enjoyed his observation that
The Big Wake-Up has a connection to
both his homes--the apartment he and his wife keep in the
Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires and his home base in Oakland, California (which is very close to a
certain cemetery).
The Lady from Shanghai
My recent
piece on the "Subterranean San Francisco" event with Domenic Stansberry, Peter Maravelis and Kelli Stanley over on The Huffington Post featured this photograph of the Li Po Lounge:
where the event took place.
Li Po was featured in another well-regarded noir outing: Orson Welles' 1947
The Lady from Shanghai, starring himself and his then wife Rita Hayworth.
Here's a screen capture from late in the movie when Welles runs past the bar:
And another as Hayworth follows him:
It's amazing how little the bar has changed. Same neon sign, same faux gold cave-like entrance.
Ray and Cissy
As
reported by The Rap Sheet, there's an effort afoot to reunite Raymond Chandler and his wife Cissy at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego.
Read more about it, and find out how to register your support if you're so inclined, in my
piece on The Huffington Post.
Subterranean San Francisco
Check out my
write-up of an evening of hardboiled fare with Domenic Stansberry, Peter Maravelis and Kelli Stanley over on The Huffington Post.
And another as Hayworth follows him:
It's amazing how little the bar has changed. Same neon sign, same faux gold cave-like entrance.
As reported by The Rap Sheet, there's an effort afoot to reunite Raymond Chandler and his wife Cissy at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego.
