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7 Nov 2010, 11:38 am
Raymond Chandler Dear Reader, I spliced the main brace last night in a bar and ended up three sheets to the wind. [read post]
4 Apr 2009, 9:25 am
On sober reflection, I'd reaffirm the point I suggested earlier: Chandler is surprisingly funny. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 7:47 am
Today is the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 7:53 pm
For The Guardian, Max Décharné, musician (Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars) and author (the forthcoming Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang) offers this list of the "ten best slangy crime novels," which includes not simply some well known titles (Dorothy Sayers's Murder Must Advertise, Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, and Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go) and some semi-well known… [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 8:23 am
-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953) Now more than ever, telephones are black holes of information. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 12:40 pm
Here's some assistance from two experts.First Raymond Chandler offers Ten Commandments for writing a detective novel, available here from Open Culture.His first rule: 1) It [the novel] must be credibly motivated, both as to the original situation and the dénouement.Also check out Father Ronald Knox's Ten Commandments for writing detective fiction, here. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 10:04 pm
Apologies to Raymond Chandler, but best-movie lawyer lists are about as common as an annoyed look on a bank teller. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 5:47 pm
Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 9:38 am
He'd made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood. [read post]
1 May 2024, 11:04 am
Alfred D. [read post]
25 May 2010, 3:18 pm
Nimmer & D. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 4:55 pm
It's Chandler manque'd by a mile. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 5:53 pm
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (first sentence) "A man, it must be presumed, without clocks on his socks. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 11:45 am
Companion legislation, S. 1921 by Senator Raymond Lesniak, D-Union, has already passed the Senate, and if it’s enacted into law, New Jersey will become the tenth state to end gestation crate confinement. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 1:20 pm
A bare majority of the Parole Board thinks he should die, at least in part because his death sentence wasn't vacated before they got to decide.The ball, as they say, is in Governor Kasich's court.Eley Clemency Report---------------------*If this sort of thing sounds vaguely familiar, it might be because you once read Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (or one of the hundreds of books that tried to copy Chandler's style). [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 2:41 pm
"Raymond Chandler, writing about detective fiction, saidin everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.Life, of course, is often less credible, less realistic than art. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 4:33 pm
To take Google’s word for it, 1899 was a literary annus mirabilis, which saw the publication of Raymond Chandler’s Killer in the Rain, The Portable Dorothy Parker, André Malraux’s La Condition Humaine, Stephen King’s Christine, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Raymond Williams’s Culture and Society 1780-1950, and Robert Shelton’s biography of Bob Dylan, to name just a few. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 8:15 am
(If you want to read a great critical explication of the realistic detective story, look up Raymond Chandler’s seminal essay, “The Simple Art of Murder. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 7:17 pm
Clark, Henry D. [read post]
3 Jan 2010, 9:48 pm
My exemplars are Ross MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, and James Ellroy. [read post]
