Amid the unthinkable losses from L.A.'s unprecedented disaster, there were also small miracles and harbingers of hope across ...

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

Joan Didion There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana ... effect the winds seem to have on residents psychologically. American author Raymond Chandler once ...

LOS ANGELES — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California ... In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing that ...

It's hard to do much more because there is fuel - dry vegetation, buildings - and because of the Santa Ana winds blowing ... There's a famous passage from a Raymond Chandler short story in which ...