July 2012
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“Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books…I have friends from all walks...”
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— Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking
(via textiscomplicated)
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Tom Williams' Blog →
The blog of the author of the aforementioned new Raymond Chandler biography A Mysterious Something in the Light -
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe →
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a dramatic radio series that ran from 1947 through 1951. During the run of the series, Marlowe was voiced by Van Heflin, Gerald Mohr, and William Conrad. You can listen to, and download, episodes at the Internet Archive, via the above link.
Chandler did not care for the series, writing to Earl Stanley Gardner that, “It was thoroughly flat.”
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“When they were making Double Indemnity in Hollywood, Billy Wilder complained...”
– - James M. Cain, author of Double Indemnity, from this interview.
With thanks to Simple Art of Murder.
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Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler Talk Shop →
Originally aired in 1958, this very genial (and slightly inebriated?) conversation between Chandler and Fleming, creator of James Bond, came at what was effectively the end of his career and close to the end of his life. Chandler’s newly-published book mentioned in the interview, Playback, was his last complete novel.
Chandler did marry Philip Marlowe off in his next work, Poodle Springs,...
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They pay brisk money for this crap? →
dispatchesfromnoir:
Raymond Chandler could certainly turn a phrase. This is not news to anyone familiar with Philip Marlowe. As it happens, his personal correspondence (before Facebook and tweeting and all that instant gratification, people had to write letters, kids) was no less colorful.
Chandler wrote this letter to his agent when working on his final published novel, Playback. He took...
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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (via honeychurch)
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Wodehouse & Chandler →
It must have been a school for bons mots – Chandler’s first year there was PG Wodehouse’s last, so the noir novelist who wrote the immortal “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window” was looking up to the farceur who described an aunt: “She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built around her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs...
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