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Erik Larson on ‘The Maltese Falcon’: Best. Novel. Ever?
The Wall Street Journal’s Book Club has a real doozy this week: hardboiled author Eric Larson on the father of hardboiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett. ‘One of the Best Novels, Period’ There was a time when Erik Larson could recite from memory an … Continue reading
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Tagged Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Caspar Gutman, Chicago World's Fair, cinema noir, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Larson, Goodreads, hard-boiled detective novels, Homer, Humphrey Bogart, Joel Cairo, John Huson, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade, Sydney Greenstreet, The Devil in the White City, The Maltese Falcon, Virgil, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Book Club
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Correction o’ the Day (At Play in the Fields of the Times Edition)
The prolific author Peter Matthiessen died last week and the obituaries came fast and, in some cases, loose. From Wednesday’s New York Times Corrections: FRONT PAGE An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in early editions on Monday about … Continue reading
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Tagged At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Bitcoins, Dog Soldiers, Ernest Hemingway, Far Tortuga, George Plimpton, Goodreads, Hotchkiss School, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, New York Times, Peter Matthiessen, Roger Stone, St. Bernard's, The Old Man and the Sea, Viking Press
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Kinky Friedman Rides Again!
Among the least-noticed results of Tuesday’s little-noticed Texas primary was this (via Politico): Kinky Friedman makes Texas runoff Richard “Kinky” Friedman, a humorist and country music singer, got one step closer Tuesday to adding another line to his résumé: agriculture … Continue reading
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