Ten Things to Read on the 50th Anniversary of Raymond Chandler’s Death
- “Marlowe Goes to the Movies” at The Rap Sheet
- Carolyn Kellogg’s account of a Chandler panel featuring Denise Hamilton, Judith Freeman, Leo Braudy, and Kenneth Turan
- Freeman pays tribute to Chandler in the LA Weekly
- Gregory McNamee on POODLE SPRINGS, the unfinished novel Robert B. Parker finished up 20 years ago (via)
- Larry Harnisch goes through the LA Times’ morgue for vintage Chandler articles
- The Penguin Blog recounts the arduous task of hunting down first edition dust jackets of Chandler’s novels, which paid off in a handsome way in this month’s hardcover reissues of THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, LITTLE SISTER and THE LONG GOODBYE by Hamish Hamilton (all of which now sit at the top of my TBR piles, waiting to be read on my next trip)
- A fill-in-the-blank Chandler quiz at Read Street
- Chris Routledge looks at Chandler’s early life
- Isaac Adamson’s essay at Legacy.com (via)
- And Tom Williams’ blog about writing a biography of Raymond Chandler.