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Tag Archives: Dashiell Hammett
Bouchercon 2019: Evolution of the Noir Genre
Bouchercon. Conversation about the Evolution of the Noir Genre Panel, 1 November 2019, 1PM in Landmark C in Dallas Hyatt Regency. Recorded by Patrick von Wiegandt and transcribed here by Gabriel Valjan. Any errors are my own. Panelists: Moderator, Eryk Pruitt … Continue reading
Posted in American Writers, Noir, Women Writers, Writing
Tagged 52 Pickup, A Savage Night, Alyssa Nutting, Blacktop Wasteland, Bouchercon 2019, Cassidy's Girl, Chris Offutt, Christa Faust, Cottonmouths, Country Dark, country noir, Curzio Malaparte, Daniel Woodrell, Dashiell Hammett, David Goodis, Derek Raymond, Dora Suarez, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, Elmore Leonard, Eryk Pruitt, Gary Phillips, GBH, Holding On To Nothing, incel, Jedidah Ayres, Jim Thompson, John Vercher, Jordan Harper, Kelly J. Ford, LGBTQ, Lightwood, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, misogyny, My Darkest Prayer, Nikki Dolson, noir, Peter Rozovsky, Pierre Lemaitre, Pop. 1280, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, rural noir, S.A. Cosby, sad daddy, She Rides Shotgun, Steph Post, Tampa, Ted Lewis, The Greast Swindle, The Skin, Three-Fifths, violence, Walter Mosely, Winter's Bone
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Big as a phone book, but good enough to dial in Hammett
There is no dearth of commentaries on Hammett’s contribution to crime fiction, or reviews of his Continental Op stories. The foremost value of Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett’s Big Book of The Continental Op, a door-stopper of a book, … Continue reading
Posted in American Writers, Forgotten Writers, Noir
Tagged Contiental Op, crime fiction, Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled, noir
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Hammett on Hammett: The Case of the Mystery Editor
Maxwell Perkins coached and encouraged F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gordon Lish often slashed more than half of Raymond Carver’s stories. Thanks to letters, journals, and literary scholars, readers can see the trajectories of manuscripts from draft to printed page. Not just … Continue reading
Posted in American Writers, Classics, Film, Noir
Tagged Dashiell Hammett, editing, The Maltese Falcon
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Hookers of Gin
“I poured out a couple of hookers of gin…She went into the kitchen for another siphon and more ice.” –Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas … Continue reading
Posted in American Writers, Mystery, Noir
Tagged Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Red Harvest, Red Wind
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The Pagan’s Creed
“Have you ever heard anything about God, Topsy?” The child looked bewilder’d, but grinned as usual. “Do you know who made you?” “Nobody, as I knows on,” said the child, with a short laugh. The idea appeared to amuse her … Continue reading
Posted in American Writers, Classics, Women Writers
Tagged A Model of Christian Chairity, American Civil War, American women fight for the right to vote, Dashiell Hammett, Dick Diver, Emerson, F.O. Mathiessen, Frederick Jackson Turner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hawthorne, Joshua Scottow, Lincoln meets Stowe, Mr. Flitcraft, Representative Men, The Scarlet Letter, Topsy, Wakefield, Winthrop
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It burned on invisibly, a candle in the crypt
“He had said that most people saw only the “brownstone front” side of his nature, the austere, stiff conservative side, but that there was another, a truer side, a romantic, loyal, idealistic one. This is what he meant when he … Continue reading
