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The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)
Well the Missus trundled me down to the Big Town for my birthday last weekend and, say, it was swell. (It also marked the start of a year’s worth of my saying, à la Raymond Chandler, that I’m pushing 70 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Anna D. Shapiro, Annette Arm, Armie Hammer, Bill Cunningham, Chaim Soutine, Château de Versailles, Clara Driscoll, Color, Conflict, Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, Cooper Hewitt, David Copperfield, Diego Rivera, Fashion Institute of Technology, Fashion Unraveled, FIT, Flesh, Fondation Giacometti, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Harry Houdini, Heavenly Bodies:Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, James Gardner, Josh Charles, Like Life: Sculpture Color and the Body (1300-Now), Louis Comfort Tiffany, Louis XIV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miles Malleson, Mint Theater Company, MOMA, Morgan Library, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Paul Schneider, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, pushing 70 hard enough to break a wrist, Raymond Chandler, Scofield Thayer Collection, Second Stage Theater, Stephen Payne, Straight White Men, Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection, Terry Teachout, The Jewish Museum, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection, The Met Breuer, The Met Cloisters, The Weekly Standard, Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, Visitors to Versailles, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, Wall Street Journal, Wearing Memories, Young Jean Lee
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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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Raymond Chandler’s Not-So-Simple Art of Murder
As you splendid readers might – or more likely might not – remember, the hardworking staff waxed nostalgic the other day about the great hardboiled writer Raymond Chandler and his trademark essay, The Simple Art of Murder. We subsequently re-read Chandler’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballantine Books, Blackmailers Don't Shoot, but down these mean streets, George Orwell, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Owen Taylor, Politics and the English Language, Raymond Chandler, Red Wind, The Big Sleep, The Simple Art of Murder, The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words, Trent's Last Case
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Christmas Present: Chandler’s ‘The Simple Art of Murder’
Splendid reader Bill sent this response to our recent Grammer Is My Business post about the new book The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words. Chandler’s essay “the Simple Art of Murder” is the best essay on any … Continue reading
Herald Goes Double ‘Dutch’
The Boston Herald devotes two pages today to remembrances of the great Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at age 87. Start with the Associated Press obituary, which begins “He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the … Continue reading
A Slice Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
So awhile back a Papa Gino’s Express installed itself in Brookline Village, the latest chapter in the neighborhood’s upscale-downscale tug of war. (See also: Pomodoro, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and etc.) Last month PGE, as no one calls it, handed out … Continue reading
R.I.P., Sam Spade Jr.
Joe Gores was the son Dashiell Hammett never had. An accomplished mystery writer in his own right, Gores devoted two books to channeling the father of hard-boiled detective fiction: the 1975 novel Hammett, and the 2009 prequel to The Maltese … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashiell Hammett, Hammett, Homer, Joe Gores, New York Times, Raymond Chandler, Spade & Archer, Virgil
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California Goes From Gimbels To Lohan
Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed piece: California: The Lindsay Lohan of States Lede: Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You’re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once … Continue reading
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