Walter Mosley joins me at Mysterious Bookshop

Lots of good news about The Long Embrace, which was #8 last week on the LA Times Bestseller list. The book has been out now for just three weeks.

It's also the "Top Book Pick" of the week in the Dec. 3rd issue of Newsweek.

The review of The Long Embrace in the Dec. 6th issue of The New York Review of Books by Pico Iyer is a really a beautiful piece of writing. Don't miss it. I've always admired Pico's writing, and I think my new book gives him the chance to write a really stunning essay about Raymond Chandler, his work, and LA.

Rick Woodward will soon publish his list of his top twenty books of the year in a piece in the Village Voice which includes The Long Embrace.

And in the next issue of the Directors Guild of America's newsletter there will be a great review by John Patterson, who said that The Long Embrace was his favorite book of the year.

I'll be doing a reading in New York at Otto Penzler's wonderful store, Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., on December 4th, 6:30-8 p.m., and my friend Walter Mosley will be on hand that night to introduce me and I'm hoping we can have a conversation about Chandler and LA, and Walter's work, and discuss The Long Embrace. If you're in the neighborhood, I hope you'll stop by.