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Via Clive Davis, the Washington Post offers a list of five great unfinished novels. As you might expect The Man Without Qualities and The Last Tycoon are among those who make the cut. One that's missing: the novel that was shaping up to be Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston. What other novels should be on the list'Second question: which unfinished novels were better left that way?...
Blanchard's theory of genres begins with the axiom that there a platonic idea at the bottom of every genre. With horror, it's the idea of evil made physicall y manifest. With science fiction, it's the idea that the physical laws...
Herman Melville was for them; Raymond Chandler was against. Donald Barthelme thought they were “ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly.” His contemporary, Kurt Vonnegut, called them “transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.” Yet another commentator, grammar enthusiast James Kilpatrick, attacks them as “girly,” “odious,” and “the most pusillanimous, sissified, utterly useless mark of punctuation...
Raymond Chandler. Charles Bukowski. Walter Mosley. Meh. Los Angeles’ true literary legacy is the zombie/vampire/supervirus/apocalypse genre, which novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson kick-started with his 1954 novel I Am Legend. Matheson’s story, set in 1970’s Los Angeles, follows the trials and tribulations of the seemingly sole survivor of a plague that transforms humans into vampires. The...
Every few years I go through a criminal phase. But only vicariously. I'm not a regular reader of crime fiction, but I do enjoy a killing & detection spree from time to time. I don't like to mix and match...
"What they call a Gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real Gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow." -...
This was an article I wrote that first appeared in Crimespree Magazine in May, 2008. It started as an idea. My idol, Raymond Chandler, spent a lot of time in my hometown of Los Angeles. He lived in five different...
Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to have written? THE LADY IN THE LAKE by Raymond Chandler and TIGER IN THE SMOKE by Margery Allingham. What fictional character would you most like to have been? It’s not crime but definitely Indiana Jones. Who do you read for guilty pleasures? Viz. Most satisfying writing...
in a hum-drum life. I think I might start another quickie play, this weekend. I'm thinking a detective story, sort of Raymond Chandler-ish, or something similar. I need something to do. I was hoping to go out this weekend, but that's not happening. I won't even be able to go play some crazy golf or buy an ice cream, sadly. The summer is once again, passing me by, with nothing to show for it. I don't...
I'm sure almost everyone on the planet has read Giles Coren's letter to the sub editors, for the three people who haven't here it is. Rant For anyone who feels the need to harangue sub-editors (and I can't say I approve of such a thing) this is how it should be done. The letter was composed by Raymond Chandler to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Edward Weeks. To Edward Weeks ... Would you convey...
Elliot Gould is getting some of the recognition he deserves and has largely missed over the years, via a series at BAMcinématek in NYC calld "Elliott Gould: Star for an Uptight Age." I first recall seeing him as Billy...
