A star, a bar and a noir Nov 20, 2009
Buschel deals the bruised hero every card in the Raymond Chandler pack trains, ladies sitting in shadows, brittle dialogue and sudden blackouts ... Buschel deals the bruised hero every card in the Raymond Chandler pack trains, ladies sitting in shadows, brittle dialogue and sudden blackouts. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Twilight of Our Youth: It isnt just a tween phenomenon. Women in their 30s and beyond are addicted to Stephenie Meyers vampire saga, too, Sarah Hepola, Salon Nov 19, 2009
Grouping himself with whose Harry Dresden novels about a P.I.-wizard in Chicago were inspired by the Anita Blake series, he claims a shared "lineage" with Butcher that includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. The urban fantasy hero, Levitt writes, is a "troubled loner," who "has romantic hopes, but they're never the focus of the books." Harris and Hamilton, he claims, come from "the romance tradition," where "an essential element always remains about whether or not it's a good idea to do... (Harper's Magazine)
'Dancing in the Dark,' by Morris Dickstein Nov 4, 2009
Other authors may see events and people he doesn't describe, or doesn't discuss at length - Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler - but Dickstein encompasses the full spectrum of creative energies in the 1930s, writing about Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Aaron Copeland, Duke Ellington. He writes lyrically about American dance, the American Dream, gangsters and screwball comedy. (San Francisco Chronicle)
L. Ron Hubbard Pulp Fiction Classics From 20s and 30s Wow Seniors at AARP National Convention Oct 30, 2009
Like other great pulp writers that included names such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett, Hubbard rapidly became a mainstay of popular fiction in the 20th century. However, Hubbard was unlike most authors of the day, as his stories covered a wide spectrum of genres, including adventure, western, mystery, detective, fantasy, science fiction and even some romance, using his own and 15 pen names. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Leonard Drohan; his bestseller skewered bureaucracy Oct 29, 2009
Soldiers introduced Mr. Drohan to popular writers such as Raymond Chandler, to the plays of William Shakespeare, and to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. He was stationed in the United States and London during World War II and returned to marry Elizabeth Goodwin, his sister Myllis s friend, in 1948. (Boston Globe)
Menu item: Red herring Oct 29, 2009
Amateur detectives have fun playing Raymond Chandler or Sue Grafton for a few hours. Best of all, the audience soon recovers from trying to digest too many red herrings along the way. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Mystery, Mayhem & Music aims to raise funds for WECAN Oct 23, 2009
Raymond Chandler used to say that the more sophisticated your reader becomes, the less likely you are to be able to satisfy them. And if they read you repeatedly, they get to know your tricks, so you should only write one and then go on to cookbooks or something, he says. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky dies Oct 15, 2009
His son, Peter Kaminsky, told the newspaper that the author grew up reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and began writing himself as a boy. He published his first novel, "Bullet for a Star," in 1977. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
We are all guilty of being fascinated by crime Oct 9, 2009
Demand fostered authors such as Raymond Chandler and, later, Elmore Leonard, the grand-daddies of crime writing. A-list actors of the ilk of James Cagney and H 00004000 umphrey Bogart lined up for roles in gangster flicks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
'Chinatown' writer inspired by memories of L.A. Sep 26, 2009
The other transporting moment was prompted by a newspaper article that focused on the 1930s and '40s Los Angeles of crime novelist Raymond Chandler and included photos of a period convertible at historic buildings. "I'm very susceptible to the sights and sounds of the city," says Towne, who will turn 75 in November. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jason Schwartzman hits his stride in ‘Bored to Death’ Sep 26, 2009
He plays a Brooklyn writer, Jonathan Ames, who after splitting up with his girlfriend (and reading a Raymond Chandler novel) decides to post a message on Craigslist offering his services as a private detective. The series airs Sundays. (Boston Globe)
CHORION: International Brand Strategy Drives 35% Revenue Growth, Profits Up 63% Sep 21, 2009
In addition, the Group also owns or controls Raymond Chandler, Robert Bolt, Margery Allingham, Edmund Crispin, Dennis Wheatley, Nicolas Freeling ... Apart from its childrens brands, Chorion is also the owner of several famous literary estates, including Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Crooks 'R' Us Sep 20, 2009
Raymond Chandler wrote that the secret of crime writing was to have a hero who walked down mean streets but was not himself mean. He didn't say anything about women. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Bored To Death Extends HBO's Streak Sep 19, 2009
But instead of joining the Army like Bill Murray and Harold Ramis did, Schwartzman, inspired by Raymond Chandler novels, puts an ad on Craigslist claiming to be an unlicensed private investigator. Comedy ensues as Ames gently attempts to solve his clients; problems;as well as his own. (Multichannel News)
Brownstone Noir Sep 19, 2009
Excited for distraction and recently corrupted by Raymond Chandler novels, Jonathan places a Craigslist ad selling his services as a private eye. He begins scrambling along behind missing persons and straying lovers. (Slate)
‘Bored to Death’ is delightfully droll Sep 18, 2009
A writer by trade, the grieving Jonathan becomes fixated on Raymond Chandler and impulsively advertises himself on Craigslist as a private eye. Most online fantasy projections involve sex, but for Jonathan the fantasy is about becoming a man of action and leaving his shame behind. (Boston Globe)
Jason Schwartzman isnt Bored one bit Sep 18, 2009
He plays a Brooklyn writer, Jonathan Ames, who after splitting up with his girlfriend (and reading a Raymond Chandler novel) decides to post a message on Craigslist offering his services as a private detective. Hes no expert, but hes no Clouseau, either. (MSNBC -- Television)
California Ablaze Sep 9, 2009
It was one of those hot, dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch, said Philip Marlow, Raymond Chandler s famous hard-boiled detective. On nights like that every booze party ends up in a fight and meek little house wives feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husbands necks. (The American Conservative)
9 to 5 to 9: Deal with the desert or it will deal with you Sep 8, 2009
Might it just be the effect that Raymond Chandler described so brilliantly in the opening lines of his 1938 short story "Red Wind". "There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.". (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Matthew Gilbert rates the new fall TV shows Sep 6, 2009
The concept: Schwartzman, from Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited, plays a usually stoned and pleasantly deluded Brooklyn writer who becomes obsessed with Raymond Chandler after his girlfriend dumps him. He finds work as a private eye by listing himself on Craigslist. (Boston Globe)
Campy gore, stoner noir provide guilty pleasure Sep 6, 2009
Think Jeff Spicoli meets Bogart in a Raymond Chandler film set in the era of hippies and sexual revolution. Than add humor. (Boston Globe)
The Blue Dahlia a Film Noir Murder ... Sep 4, 2009
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in The Blue Dahlia (1946) is a classic film noir based on a story written by detective writer Raymond Chandler ... The story was written by Raymond Chandler, famed as the writer of hard boiled detective novels ... Written by Raymond Chandler. (Suite101.com)
Out of the Shadows Aug 31, 2009
They function a little like Raymond Chandler as he traces the corruption that produces, at the end of a long chain of circumstances, the lady in the lake. A genial Baltimore man named Denzel Mitchell, a social-studies teacher, is interviewed on the day he declared bankruptcy, and, on this same day, we see his house auctioned off (in a dead market, there is only one prospective buyer) on the steps of a Baltimore courthouse. (New Yorker)
Michael Viner, 65, publisher of audio books Aug 14, 2009
Although it gained the most notice for releases that seemed to spring from the pages of the tabloid media (such as The Private Diary of Lyle Menendez ), most of Dove s releases were more mundane: actor Paul Scofield reading Charles Dickens or actor Elliott Gould reading Raymond Chandler. Mr. Viner said that reading classic literature helped him deal with a lonely childhood. (Boston Globe)
* [HARDCOVER: US]The American Dream: from freedom to fear Aug 2, 2009
As usual, Pynchon prefers to approach serious questions through frivolity and pastiche, in this case a psychedelic spoof of Raymond Chandler. His protagonist, Larry Doc Sportello, is a pot-smoking private investigator sent by an ex-flame on the trail of a disappeared property tycoon who may or may not have had a crisis of conscience and be setting up a quasi-socialist commune. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’ delivers manic requiem for ’60s-’70s Aug 2, 2009
In the venerable tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and dozens of successors, Vice begins when a beautiful woman arrives at the office of Doc Sportello, just south of Los Angeles. Sportello is hardly your hard-boiled detective. (Boston Globe)
Dark days in the newsroom Jul 29, 2009
At the University of Florida, he fell in love with Robert Altman s film of The Long Goodbye and started reading Raymond Chandler. Finally, he told his parents that he was abandoning his two years of study in building-construction engineering to pursue writing crime fiction a long shot at best. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Louis Menand: Pynchon’s stoned detective. Jul 29, 2009
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, Raymond Chandler s famous dictum states. It appeared in an essay called The Simple Art of Murder, published in 1944 Chandler s attempt to define what might give a little literary dignity to the murder mystery. (New Yorker)
Fiction comes to life in L.A. Jun 5, 2009
Oh yeah, and a seat on Esotouric's Raymond Chandler Bus Tour, having decided to learn whether L.A. really is, as Chandler's hard-bitten detective Philip Marlowe once said, "just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style." ... What: Quirky bus tours of the noir side of Los Angeles, including visits to sites that inspired writers Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Noir Tour, Seeing L.A. From Under a Fedora Jun 3, 2009
Oh yeah, and a seat on Esotouric's Raymond Chandler Bus Tour, having decided to learn whether L.A. really is, as Chandler's hard-bitten detective Philip Marlowe once said, "just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style." ... "I read his letters, and I knew Chandler liked to give tours of Los Angeles, about scenes from his books and his crime scenes in particular, and I always had this notion of how do you show people Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles," Schave said ... It's Raymond... (Fox News)
Full Story» Jun 1, 2009
Tour keeps spirit of Raymond Chandler's LA alive - Yahoo ... Tour keeps spirit of Raymond Chandler's LA alive ... AP Tour guide Richard Schave shows some of the tools of the trade of the late crime author Raymond Chandler. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Should ’sexting’ be decriminalized? Apr 28, 2009
Though I don t really understand her I love my sister, her name s Miranda The boys from uptown they can t stand her The more she denies them the more they demand her But she just wants to lay in bed all night Reading Raymond Chandler She got high heel shoes She sings the blues She says abracadabra when she goes down on you. She got a sister and her name is Anita Anita got one peculiar feature Every time that they come to meet her She turns out like a jungle cheetah She got spiked shoes She hums... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Life writes its way into character Apr 20, 2009
Corris invented Hardy after reading American crime fiction writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Ross Macdonald. "Hardy was a straight pinch from Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe," he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Extra! Extra! Apr 20, 2009
Each movie features, at its center, the kind of scruffy urban hero whom Raymond Chandler canonized long ago ( Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean ) in this case, not a private eye but a print journalist, slovenly and sleepless, hounded by editors, comfortable only in a banged-up Saab. He may be disorganized and inadequate in his personal life, but his professional instincts are superb. (New Yorker)
No comments posted. Apr 6, 2009
He never garnered the attention of Bukowski, Raymond Chandler or Joan Didion. Nowhere near as many people know about him as should in Los Angeles, let alone outside of it, said David Kipen, director of literature for the National Endowment for the Arts, who this week is moderating a Zocalo Public Square panel in honor of Fantes would-be centennial. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
* Never judge a book by its movie Mar 27, 2009
Watching the two go at it with considerable finesse, my mind wandered to a quote by the novelist and Hollywood screenwriter Raymond Chandler about sex: Its excitement of a high order. Its necessary and it doesnt have to be ugly. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Bars & Clubs Mar 11, 2009
If you can find the place, which you enter through the back of the caf or via a skinny alley a few doors down, you can throw them back in the same spot author Raymond Chandler is rumored to have done the same. Figueroa Hotel. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Famed Author and Accomplished Explorers Club Member L. Ron Hubbard Honored by New York's Publishing Industry Feb 25, 2009
Already established as one of the top selling writers of high adventure, mystery, western, SF and Fantasy in the world of pulp fiction--with its 30 million monthly readers--the name L. Ron Hubbard (along with any of his 15 pen names), was regularly seen besides the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in those pulpwood pages. Hubbard used his experiences on expeditions to good effect. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Adam Gopnik: Damon Runyon’s guys and dolls. Feb 23, 2009
Few readers of Raymond Chandler can recall, or even follow, the plot of Farewell, My Lovely Chandler himself couldn t always follow his plots. What they remember is that Moose Malloy on a Los Angeles street was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel-food cake. (New Yorker)
Counter-terrorism in America: NYPD's fighting force Feb 13, 2009
He delights in a tough-guy language that owes as much to Mickey Spillane as to Raymond Chandler. So the general reader can enjoy a book that has the pace and drama of a thriller, and for the specialist interested in questions such as how to defend a city of nearly 8. (The Economist)
