Articles tagged "raymond chandler"

Column: Deconstruction Zone

Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver’s The God of War

by Rodger Jacobs

[30.Sep.08] :. Silver took the vital ingredients of a regional novel and composed an L.A. tale, but set many miles east -- at the edge of the desolate Salton Sea -- a wasteland that would have held tremendous appeal to T.S. Eliot.

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A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan

by Chris McCann

[25.Jun.07] :. A Nail Through the Heart can be read as an anti-noir, eschewing the taciturn, solitary detective for a man whose only desire is to connect.

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Wall Street Noir by Peter Spiegelman [Editor]

by Michael Antman

[30.May.07] :. For desperate acts, psychosexual kinks, and a pervasive sense of fatalism, there are better places to look than the office of a CFO.

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