Blogs about: Raymond Chandler
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Book of books - The Big Sleep
A picture of a gun toting Humphrey Bogart adorns the front cover and in the background is a glamorous blond. But although sex is offered the women are nothing but trouble for Raymond Chandler’s lead… more »
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Killing Your Parents Over 'Fish' and 'Chips'
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J.S. Peyton wrote 2 days ago: On random, miscellaneous links and what happens at 69: This is not even remotely book-related but, w … more »
The Six-Word Screenplay
Scott W. Smith wrote 4 days ago: “Vigorous writing is concise.“ … more »
Against Beach Reading
ohkrapp wrote 4 days ago: People are self-conscious about what they read. Not everyone, of course, as you might have noticed … more »
Jo Stafford - 1917 - 2008
gottafang wrote 1 week ago: She had a voice with a tone as rich and heady as fresh maple syrup, yet her delivery had the clarity … more »
De urbe angelorum primum scriptum: Osteria Angelini
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Do Bianchi wrote 1 week ago: Do Bianchi adds a new category: de urbe angelorum. Here beginneth a cycle of posts on the City of An … more »
2,400,000 Americans play the accordion - hopefully not at the same time.
jazzedupempress wrote 1 week ago: I woke up this morning feeling, that I have been stuck in a time warp. People would ask me how ol … more »
Raymond Chandler's LA
percececil wrote 3 weeks ago: So I just got back from LA and I have to say that LA really has changed a lot, it is no longer the … more »
can't afford the price/ashes in a casket
thingling wrote 1 month ago: Sunshine, yeah. Still in shock from the weekend. At the public library I read through Doug Aitken … more »
Double Indemnity-1944
bennythomas wrote 1 month ago: Double indemnity is a legal term: it is a provision or clause in a life insurance or accident policy … more »
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
chaplin wrote 1 month ago: THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947) Orson Welles - Michael O’Hara / Rita Hayworth - Elsa Bannister … more »
all day bookie/shoe out
thingling wrote 1 month ago: Computer headache, it tells me it has to restart or turn off, no doubt a temperature factor, but the … more »
The One from the Other
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jwakeham wrote 1 month ago: In choosing Ian Fleming as a hero of this site I compared him to such masters of genre fiction as Er … more »
Pulp Fiction: H. P. Lovecraft
eleventh stack wrote 1 month ago: Back in the day, libraries, like dictionaries, were prescriptive rather than descriptive. … more »
Tudo ao mesmo tempo agora
Tommy Beresford wrote 1 month ago: As buscas por Agatha Christie na rede nos presenteiam com textos de todo tipo. O trecho abaixo foi e … more »
American Made
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Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer who’s deeply influenced by American ones—it’s … more »
Grist
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ducksanddrakes wrote 2 months ago: I’m out from under my rock thanks to this interesting article about crime fiction by Gregory B … more »
visions of rotten
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moogthegrrl wrote 2 months ago: i had this dream last night that a tyranosaurus rex–seriously–was attacking our house … more »
The Long Goodbye: Recreating Noir
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mrsemmapeel wrote 2 months ago: The film noir protagonist is often jaded, morally ambiguous and obsessed. Inevitably he becomes so … more »
Marlovian Theory
Mark Athitakis wrote 3 months ago: At the Outfit, Sara Paretsky writes a brief but elegant tribute to Raymond Chandler’s 1954 nov … more »
