http://therumpus.net/2009/03/chandler%e2%80%99s-reverse-romances/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sat, 26 May 2012 01:55:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://therumpus.net/2009/03/chandler%e2%80%99s-reverse-romances/comment-page-1/#comment-1850 Mike Cane Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:53:47 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=9811#comment-1850 Reading Chandler's collected letters was instructive. He lamented that his novels were ignored by the "literati," reviewers, and the like. Yet all those writers and books that were "noteworthy" and "best sellers" at that time are today all out of print and justly forgotten. Chandler, dismissed during his lifetime, turned out to be -- rightly -- immortal. Reading Chandler’s collected letters was instructive. He lamented that his novels were ignored by the “literati,” reviewers, and the like. Yet all those writers and books that were “noteworthy” and “best sellers” at that time are today all out of print and justly forgotten. Chandler, dismissed during his lifetime, turned out to be — rightly — immortal.

]]> http://therumpus.net/2009/03/chandler%e2%80%99s-reverse-romances/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 eastlake, charles Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:39:02 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=9811#comment-1846 Dashiel who? Dashiel who?

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