Event: Noir Novel: Talks @ Glendale Library
The Long Embrace & A Dead Man Speaks:
Judith Freeman and Lisa Jones Johnson
Thursday, September 18, 7 pm
Central Library Auditorium
Glendale, CA
(MAP below @ bottom of page)
Judith
Freeman and Lisa Jones Johnson discuss their new books, Freeman¹s The
Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved, and Johnson¹s A
Dead Man Speaks. Freeman and Johnson have added their names to the long
list of writers who understand both the hope and the dark horror
inspired by noir.
Raymond Chandler was one of the most original
and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. He created
detective Philip Marlowe, an icon of American culture, and the classic
noir novel and movie set in Glendale, Double Indemnity. In Freeman¹s
compelling, wholly original biography, The Long Embrace, she examines
vestiges of the Los Angeles that was the inspiration for Chandler¹s
imagination. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older,
twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924, who would play an
essential role in how he came to understand his female characters and
Marlowe¹s relation to them.
A Dead Man Speaks is the story of
two men who need each other to complete their livesone living, the
other deadone to move forward in this life and the other to move
forward in the next. As he lays dying, Clive January, the murdered
founder of the first Black investment bank on Wall Street, hears voices
from another world telling him that he must find out who killed him or
he will never have peace. Detective Bob Greene, a man haunted by his
own demons and his gift, a second set of psychic ³eyes² that allows him
to see into the lives of victims.
Judith Freeman is an
award-winning novelist, essayist, critic, and short story writer. She
teaches fiction in the Master of Professional Writing program at the
University of Southern California, and a class on noir, focusing on
films and mystery novels set in LA, through the USC Master of Liberal
Studies program.
Lisa Jones Johnson is a partner in Media
International, a global broadcasting company that is part of a group
that recently launched seven cable television channels across fourteen
countries in Europe. She has served as Broadcast Counsel for CBS, as a
screenwriter, and as an executive producer of television series and TV
movies. A Dead Man Speaks was nominated for a 2007 NAACP Image Award
for best Debut Author.
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