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Christopher Moore may be the most popular Canadian novelist you have never heard of
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... been muted talk recently that Clooney or his pal Brad Pitt might take on the role of Asia's Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's fictional private eye who was portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep. This sounds like pretty heady stuff but other ... Comment?
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Radio noir with Philip Marlowe
Has there ever been a detective as cool as Philip Marlowe, the pulp fiction creation of Raymond Chandler? As quick with a wisecrack as he was with gun, Marlowe worked the lonely streets and seedy alleys of '30 L.A. "I needed a drink," runs one first-person riff. Comment?
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Author takes Aber noir to Radio 4
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... - the most recent being 2011's The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still - combine the best traditions of novelist Raymond Chandler with a winning satire on life in small town Wales and a heady dose of surrealism. Set in an alternate reality Aberystwyth, run ... Comment?
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Brew Views: The Long Goodbye
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For its second tribute to film noir, Return to Noirville, Cinema 21 celebrates the genre's apex with eight classics, but it also hops a few decades forward with a trio of neo-noirs. Top among these is The Long Goodbye , Robert Altman's 1973 take on Raymond Chandler. Comment?
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... you do the rest. Ages 8 and up. Book Club -Wed., May 8, 7 p.m. Join us as we discuss 'The Big Sleep' by Raymond Chandler. To join, visit the library and pick up a copy of the book before we meet. Mother's Day Art Activity -Thurs., May 9 at 3:30 p.m. ... Comment?
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Best L.A. Novel Ever: L.A. Confidential vs. The Black Echo, Round 3
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... to the man who first perfected the hardboiled detective, Dashiell Hammett, but the writers he inspired, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, surpassed the master. And they were both L.A. writers through and through. Which is why, to this reader, the ... Comment?
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A fresh look at Wilder and Chandler
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Before Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and his vivid literary prose caught the public's attention, before Billy Wilder's towering position as one of Hollywood's greatest writer-directors, there was a James M. Cain novel titled, "Double Indemnity." The true story of how Chandler and Wilder made movie history with the ... (more) Comment?
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All Things Bookstore: 1930s Hollywood - The Stanley Rose Bookstore
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This, the second diary from my dissertation research , will be about a bookseller, one of whose bookstores I think was a model for the bookstore in Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep . Comment?
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Larry Wilson: 'Literary Pasadena' wraps the city into one book
Well, perhaps others had. From James M. Cain's "Mildred Pierce" to Raymond Chandler's "The High Window," from John Ball's Virgil Tibbs mysteries including "In the Heat of the Night" to Meggs Brown's macabre murder mystery "Saturday Games," set in Linda Vista, plenty of novels and short stories have been set in Pasadena. Comment?
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'Spector' a tour de force for cast, director
... but although Mamet structures "Phil Spector" like a legal thriller, with the compelling look and feel of Raymond Chandler and old Hollywood, the film isn't about guilt or innocence. As Kenney Baden tries to find a way to get a jury to like the ... Comment?
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‘Spector’ a tour de force for cast, director
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... death. Although Mamet structures “Phil Spector” like a legal thriller, with the look and feel of Raymond Chandler, the film isn’t about guilt or innocence. As Kenney Baden tries to find a way to get a jury to like the bewigged creator ... Comment?
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'Spector' a tour de force for cast, director
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... death. Although Mamet structures “Phil Spector” like a legal thriller, with the look and feel of Raymond Chandler, the film isn’t about guilt or innocence. As Kenney Baden tries to find a way to get a jury to like the bewigged creator ... Comment?
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Book Review: Celebrate National Reading Month (Part One) with The...
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... double duty in capturing many genre titles under-represented in the spotlighted sections. For example, Raymond Chandler ( The Big Sleep ) and Dashiell Hammett ( The Maltese Falcon ) appear in the Top Ten Crime Books, James Thurber ( My Life and Hard ... Comment?
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Kenilworth Library Book Group to discuss 'The Big Sleep'
The book group of the Kenilworth Public Library will meet to discuss Raymond Chandler's crime fiction classic, The Big Sleep, at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12, in the library's activity room. Comment?
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The Jackal's Share by Chris Morgan Jones - review
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... clear that, actually, Morgan Jones is writing detective as well as spy fiction . The novel is as much Raymond Chandler as John le CarrA ; as much The Big Sleep as The Spy Who Came in From the Cold . Broadly speaking, classic spy fiction twists ... Comment?
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'Side Effects' Rejects the Usual Sexism of Noir but Is Sexist in Its Own Way
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... poison not only the men she targets for destruction, but the entire world. Thus, the iconic moment in Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep when pretty young Carmen Sternwood reveals her madness-"Her whole face went to pieces." Chandler writes. ... Comment?
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Book Review: 'Bear Is Broken': Family Secrets Uncovered as...
BOOK REVIEW: 'Bear Is Broken': Family Secrets Uncovered as San Francisco Lawyer Is Shot, and His Out-of-the-Limelight Brother Investigates For reasons I can't completely articulate or explain, Lachlan Smith's legal thriller "Bear Is Broken" reminded me of Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic noir novel "The Big Sleep" twice filmed in Hollywood. Comment?
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Author Blog: Djewess Unchained
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... and Fall - and Rise - of 'Jewess.'" ) But the word was disturbing in modern contexts, for instance, when Raymond Chandler in "The Big Sleep" describes a woman as having "the fine-drawn face of an intelligent Jewess." What, we all have the same ... Comment?
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Women's Songs in Torah and 'The Big Sleep'
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... novel wasn't sacred text, I too wanted to give voice to a woman standing in the shadows of another story: Raymond Chandler's noir classic "The Big Sleep." In one scene, the detective, Philip Marlowe questions a woman working in a bookstore. From the ... Comment?
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Library trustees seem asleep at the wheel
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... area. Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" might be removed, unless quick witted EMT's are called in to revive it. Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" will most assuredly be deep sixed. Without dreams during sleep, Mary Shelley wouldn't have invented ... Comment?
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