by Sarah Trott | Apr 17, 2018 | Authors, Blog Article
James Crumley in Print (and Now on Screen?) The recent rumors that Mel Gibson is looking to adapt the 1983 novel Dancing Bear by James Crumley for television is exciting news. Gibson, the force behind 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, is in talks with Chinatown (1974)...
by Sarah Trott | Feb 28, 2017 | Authors, Blog Article, Detectives
The Legacy of Raymond Chandler Part II A ‘Lost’ Generation, Found: Raymond Chandler’s Legacy Although physical violence and brutality have always existed as important facets of crime fiction, the early pioneers of the genre created a style of writing in which acts of...
by Sarah Trott | Feb 27, 2017 | Authors, Blog Article, Detectives
The Legacy of Raymond Chandler A ‘Lost’ Generation, Found: Raymond Chandler’s Legacy Many 20th-century writers, particularly in the post-Vietnam era, cite Raymond Chandler as one of their main influences. Inspired by his self-consciousness within the genre and his...
by Sarah Trott | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog Article
Raymond Chandler and the Trauma of War Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe is traditionally viewed as the image of a chivalric knight seeking justice and aiming to right the wrongs of a corrupt society. But what if we could change this established belief simply...
