Posted 01.11.2012
The always-fascinating blog Letters of Note has another gem up today -- a letter that deepens the battle of wits between two old greats, Raymond Chand...
The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 12.01.2011
The legend of the Santa Ana winds has infused both residents and storytellers in Los Angeles for decades. Perhaps most memorably, author Joan Didio...
flavorwire.com | Posted 09.14.2011
Few headlines will draw our attention faster than “Pin-ups based on Haruki Murakami books.” Little did we know that Super Punch’s post would lea...
Posted 09.07.2011
From Flavorwire: A while back we did a post on literary love letters to NYC, but we knew at some point we should honor the entertainment capital of...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
Not everyone can be a literary prodigy. There are plenty of authors who didn't reach publishing success until mid-life, or later. There's a fantastic...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Reading a mystery, Aaron Katz admits, is a lot easier than writing one. That's what Katz found when, while writing the script for Cold Weather, openi...
AOL Travel News | Posted 05.25.2011
Many writers have brought unique outlooks to their visions of Los Angeles. From classic authors like Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion to modern ones l...
guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011
Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
Crime has not just been good to the criminals; it's been awfully good to Hollywood as well.
Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
David Ladd spoke about his father in a curtain talk following the absolutely fantastic screening of The Blue Dahlia at the Academy's summer film noir series.
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Over in Samoa, Jerri, having profited from the use of Candice's disloyalty, now suggested cutting her loose, for being untrustworthy. Excuse me? Show me one Insufferable who is trustworthy.
Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011
Raymond Chandler, who along with Dashiell Hammett perfected the American hardboiled detective novel, died a lonely man. A mere seventeen people attended his funeral.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
There are plenty of films out there that make us hopeful about life and living. Film noir is a guilty pleasure where we witness the denizens of society's bottom rungs stamping on each other's feet for a higher, safer position.
Carole Baron | Posted 05.25.2011
Books make great gifts and I am in a unique position-- editor, publisher, reader -- to come up with something special for each person on my list.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011
Matisyahu's latest album, Light showcases his young, old soul, further exploring musical territories of both the secular and sacred.
Steve Parker | Posted 11.17.2011
Dario Franchitti dedicated his victory to his wife, Ashley Judd, whose 41st birthday they celebrated together at Long Beach - kind of a boring proposi...
Network Awesome | Posted 04.29.2012