Review – How L.A. became itself: Jean Stein’s new oral history ‘West of Eden’

Review – How L.A. became itself: Jean Stein’s new oral history ‘West of Eden’ Review from the LA Times  February 4, 2016 By Judith Freeman When Raymond Chandler left Los Angeles in 1946, decamping with his elderly wife for the calmer environs of La Jolla, he did so because he had become fed up with …

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L.A.’s Rampart District Gave Me the Life I Wanted to Lead

Lafayette Park Anthony Hernandez and Judith Freeman -1986 Novelist Judith Freeman Reflects on Her Three-Decades-Long Relationship With Her Neighborhood By Judith Freeman | September 21, 2015 When I first moved into the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1986, the gunfire down the alley outside our bedroom often kept me awake at night—not just the pop-pop …

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