The Sacred Act of Art-Making: A Conversation with Patrick Coleman
Patrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
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Posts Tagged: raymond chandler
What to Read When the Wealth Gap Continues to Widen
Nina Revoyr shares a reading list to celebrate her newest novel, A STUDENT OF HISTORY.
...morePost-Gone Girl Crime Writing
When today’s crime writers are in doubt, they have a woman come through the door with a passive-aggressive zinger on her lips. At the Atlantic, Terrence Rafferty writes about the history crime fiction, from pulp writers in the 20s and 30s through Raymond Chandler to Gillian Flynn, and how women are writing the best crime out […]
...moreRaymond Chandler’s Writing Legacy
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too greatly gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about? Over at Lit Hub, Barry Day collects several insights into the prolific and complicated nature […]
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Rewrite, Reboot, Remix
Rewriting the classics has become a stale and risk-averse strategy. But that shouldn’t spoil the fun of our larger culture of remixing.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lori Rader-Day
Lori Rader-Day discusses her second novel, Little Pretty Things, the “five lost years” when she didn’t write at all, and her favorite deep-dish pizza.
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The Rumpus Interview with Steph Cha
Steph Cha talks about her new novel, Beware Beware, writing compelling and complex Korean American characters, and what reading a book has in common with a level in a video game.
...moreRaymond Chandler’s LA
A new map of Los Angeles highlights points of interest from Raymond Chandler’s books and films. Electric Literature has all the details.
...more“A Humiliated Boy’s Idea of Manhood”
What do Raymond Chandler’s protagonists have in common with hip-hop artists? At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates investigates: “I’ve had the privilege of reading The Big Sleep, between bouts of dabbling with the new Kendrick Lamar. Both works are technically impressive. And both have a hot throbbing core of misogyny. Lamar’s misogyny is more profane, but it’s no […]
...moreListen to This!
In 1958 Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler discussed each other’s writing in this BBC interview. Being seasoned wordsmiths on the subject, they discuss what makes a British thriller versus an American thriller (apparently “thriller” is an elusive term), heroes and villains and frustrations with bestseller lists. This conversation is definitely worth a listen!
...moreMorning Coffee
Howard Hughes’ un-flyable plane makes for a pretty great boat. One bank is letting people with good credit deposit checks by phone. Ohio is a piano for some reason. Trying to photograph Raymond Chandler’s LA. New Scientist on bomb-throwing deep sea worms. I like every word that I just typed. Death Wish Three decided to […]
...moreRaymond Chandler on Pulp, on Writing, and on Readers
My wife’s been steadily devouring Raymond Chandler, pacing herself so she doesn’t read it all at once (there is, after all, a limited supply). The other night she started in on the story collection Trouble is My Business and read me the introductory essay by Chandler dated Feb 15, 1950. Some choice quotes follow:
...moreFifty Years into Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep, Marlowe Still Speaks
Such is the subject of some fine summarizing in this week’s LA Weekly, which deserves ongoing props for going down with a fight and continuing to publish worthy writing on topics of interest despite the bosses and maladies of print. Highlights from this week’s pleasant surprise:
...moreChandler’s Reverse Romances
March 26, 2009 is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Raymond Chandler, the most important American detective fiction writer of the twentieth century.
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