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Cutter & Bone
As David Thompson points out, Ivan Passer’s 1981 film, Cutter & Bone – also known as Cutter’s Way – links more easily with the American conspiracy thrillers of the 70s, such as The Parallax View,...
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Raymond Chandler: Words to the Wise
It doesn’t matter a damn what a novel is about. The only fiction of any moment in any age is that which does magic with words. Raymond Chandler
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Reading Matters: Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’
Partly as an antidote to the prolixity of Dickens’ Bleak House, which I’m engaged in re-reading, I’ve also been reading again Dashiell Hammett’s 1931 novel, The Glass Key. This was put into my mind by...
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Lost the Plot?
Following on from Hanif Kureishi’s rant about the uselessness of creative writing courses and the primacy of story over style (see here), Raymond Chandler was quoted by John Banville in this week’s...
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Chandler on Style
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly,your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand...
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Two Sides of Bogie
Watching The Maltese Falcon last night at BFI Southbank, and spurred on, I suppose, by the recent death of Lauren Bacall, I was thrown back into long-ago arguments with friends about the relative...
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