Reviews and Blog Posts: Los Angeles

Dante's Inferno

by 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

DPL Rating:
5
Reviewer:
Noel
Reviewed on:
September 28, 2012
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In Sandow Birk’s Dante’s Inferno, Birk’s starkly beautiful  drawings show a street kid Dante carrying his skateboard through hell, following after a Virgil who often looks like a street bum in his robes. Together they negotiate a Los Angeles-like hell of tattered alleyways, ATMs, long unending strip mall streets, palm...

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Submitted by Lisa on August 19, 2011 - 2:32pm
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"It is not a fragrant world"

   --Raymond Chandler

Born in 1888, Raymond Chandler was, along with Dashiell Hammett, hugely influential in the creation of the modern American detective novel. Gritty, luxurious, mid-century Los Angeles is the setting for his seven Philip Marlowe mysteries, most notably The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely. He also wrote screenplays for highly successful adaptations of James M.

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