Books by Judith Freeman

The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman . This book is essential to anyone looking for a) a love letter to Los Angeles, b) a chance to cultivate an obsession with Raymond Chandler, or c) a new model for writing intelligent nonfiction. It’s a colorful local history of the California metropolis in the first half of the 20 th century plus an erotic biography with lots of speculative commentary interspersed, most of all on how Chandler conducted his unorthodox lov...