Raymond Chandler News

It's Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, and we're just living in it! That's the subtext of a pair of literary bus tours, offered by Esotouric, including 'Raymond Chandler's Bay City,' which on Saturday, October ...

Do you revel in intrigue, deception and conspiracy? Have you been searching endlessly for elusive first edition of your favorite mystery thriller? Do you worship authors like Dashiell Hammet and Carroll John ...

Get the skinny on The Thin Man . Okay, so the Looper and his bookworms wanted something "adventurous" for this year's One Book, One Denver.

Jack Nicholson as private eye Jake Gittes in Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" -- an epistemological mystery about seeing, the moral responsibilities of interpreting what you see, and the inevitable tragic ...

Here's the first graph of the first novel written by Raymond Chandler, "The Big Sleep," published in 1939: "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid-October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard ...

Jeff Sherratt, a '59 Downey High graduate, has been busy lately going the rounds promoting his third novel, "The Brimstone Murders" It is another Jimmy O'Brien murder mystery set against a backdrop of borax ...

Today's literary critics have fallen into the unfortunate habit of using the word "voice" when they mean "style." It's easy to see why that metaphorical usage has become popular -- a writer with a strongly ...

Genre: Mystery Directed by: Michael Winner Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Oliver Reed, James Stewart The 1978 film version of Raymond Chandler's novel The Big Sleep is wrongheadedly ...

It's been said that even Howard Hawks , the director of The Big Sleep , and Raymond Chandler , who wrote the novel that it was based on, were never entirely sure if its plot made sense.

Leigh Douglass Brackett wrote science fiction and mystery novels and Hollywood screenplays; notably those for The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo , The Long Goodbye and The Empire Strikes Back , though the latter was, by ...

To walk down Hollywood Boulevard, past the Egyptian theatre, study the hand- and footprints of the stars in front of Grauman's Chinese, and sit in Charlie Chaplin's favorite booth, sipping Raymond Burr ...

Variety reported that Jonathan Ames's "Bored to Death" just got greenlit by HBO.

In my view, Robert Mitchum would have been the best actor to portray Marlowe if he had played the private detective 20 years earier. via Books, Inq

Critical consensus says that Robert Altman's best movie was either "McCabe and Mrs. via Asahi Shimbun

“Murder", this album's highlight "Bad Blood”

Unlike so many other similarly knowledgable bands, the Sleep's fatal flaw isn't poor taste or a sycophantic rehashing of their influences-- they just need a shot in the arm, something to remind them of the ... via Pitchfork

"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in an Ivory Tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep." - The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Moving the ... via HendersonvilleNews.com

I am making a Thai shrimp lemongrass and kaffir lime stir fry for lunch! It appears that the Democratic party presidential race will roll on. via Check Raise

Father Brown - his sceptical and worldly-wise priest - featured in dozens of exquisite entertainments. via BrothersJudd Blog

Sun, Feb 17 , Metro Cinema JOSEF BRAUN / josef@vueweekly.com Depending who you ask, The Big Lebowski might be either the true masterpiece or biggest goof-off of Joel and Ethan Coen's career. via Vue Weekly

The embattled city of Detroit -- powerful, provocative and unapologetically raw -- serves as the backdrop in the new anthology ``Detroit Noir,'' the latest entry in Akashic Books' popular noir series. via Kalamazoo Gazette