Blogs about: Raymond Chandler

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Killing Your Parents Over 'Fish' and 'Chips'3 comments

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 »

Tags: Books, Miscellany, toby barlow, BBC News, LA Times, the guardian

The Six-Word Screenplay

Scott W. Smith wrote 4 days ago:   “Vigorous writing is concise.“                                    … more »

Tags: Screenwriting, Blasie Pascal, Ernest Hemingway, Six Word Memoirs, Six Word Story, SMITH Magazine, The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr

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 »

Tags: autodidact, Books, Aesthetics, Summer Reading List, Beach Reading, standard of taste, Literary criticism, David Denby, hemginway

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 »

Tags: Music, charlie haden, Haunted Heart, jo stafford, Popular Music

De urbe angelorum primum scriptum: Osteria Angelini5 comments

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 »

Tags: de cibo, de rebus californicis, de urbe angelorum, de vino, Bret Easton Ellis, David Schachter, Falletto, giacosa, Gino Angelini

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 »

Tags: Blogroll, Entertainment, Turning 30, jazzedupdiva, jazzed up diva, latebloomer late bloomer, Oprah, Winfrey, jayz

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 »

Tags: dectective, LA, Los Angeles, Mystery

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 »

Tags: long goodbye, Doug Aitken, breaking screens, Elliott Gould, Robert Altman, richard prince, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove

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 »

Tags: hollywood films, 100 Best Films, Bill Wilder, film noir, Hollywood mainstream

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 »

Tags: Scenes, Orson Welles, 40s, film noir, German Expressionism, the lady from shanghai, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Anders, Femme Fatale

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 »

Tags: criticism, Philip K. Dick, Big Sleep, Bogart, bacall, Martha Vickers, elliot gould, long goodbye, Philip Marlowe

The One from the Other1 comment

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 »

Tags: Fiction, Ian Fleming, Philip Kerr

Pulp Fiction: H. P. Lovecraft

eleventh stack wrote 1 month ago:     Back in the day, libraries, like dictionaries, were prescriptive rather than descriptive.   … more »

Tags: Horror, Don, Robert E Howard, pulp fiction, Pulps, dictionaries, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Dashiell Hammett

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 »

Tags: artigos & notícias, CSI, Dashiel Hammet, Donald Wandrei, Dorothy Sayer, Ellery Queen, Paul Chadwick, Sherlock Holmes, Supernatural Detectives

American Made1 comment

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer who’s deeply influenced by American ones—it’s … more »

Tags: J.D Salinger, f. scott fitzgerald, haruki murakami, truman capote

Grist1 comment

ducksanddrakes wrote 2 months ago: I’m out from under my rock thanks to this interesting article about crime fiction by Gregory B … more »

Tags: language, Verisimilitude, Crime Fiction, crime rates, Gregory Beyer, Hubris, S.J. Rozan

visions of rotten1 comment

moogthegrrl wrote 2 months ago: i had this dream last night that a tyranosaurus rex–seriously–was attacking our house … more »

Tags: general goobledeegook, Books, Dinosaurs, dream

The Long Goodbye: Recreating Noir12 comments

mrsemmapeel wrote 2 months ago: The film noir protagonist is often jaded, morally ambiguous and obsessed. Inevitably he becomes so … more »

Tags: Movies, film, film noir, Robert Altman

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 »

Tags: Sara Paretsky


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