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Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 03.26.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Book News, Film Noir, Dashiell Hammett, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco, Movie News, Books, Movies, Film Noir Festival, The Maltese Falcon, Video, San Francisco News
Thomas Gladysz

The Film Noir Festival currently underway at the Castro Theater in San Francisco concludes Sunday with a tribute to Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and other classic works of detective and crime fiction.

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Sexpert Susie Bright: The Novel I Read a Million Jillion Times

Susie Bright | Posted 11.08.2011 | Books
Read More: Classic Novels, Paul Zindel, Dashiell Hammett, Charles Portis, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lost in Translation, True Grit, Coen Brothers, Favorite Books, Eloise, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume, Harriet the Spy, Law and Order, The Big Lebowski, Books We Love, Books News
Susie Bright

How did reading get to be such a faster-pussycat-hurry-up activity? We listen to favorite songs over and over without apology or distraction. They make us feel good, no explanation necessary. But with books, there's this myth that it takes a "long time".

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LA's Secret Pleasures

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Stage, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, That '70s Show, Kurtwood Smith, LA Culture, Theater, Antaeus, Film, Music, London, Los Angeles, New York, Lawrence Olivier, Television, Harold Pinter, Malcolm in the Middle, Richard Burton, Jane Kaczmarek, Hollywood, Arts News
Hoyt Hilsman

One of the secret pleasures of living in Los Angeles is its vibrant and mostly unheralded theater scene.

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Reuniting Ray and Cissy

Mark Coggins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Detective Novels, Hardboiled Detective Novels, Cissy Chandler, Armchair Detective Custom, Books News
Mark Coggins

Raymond Chandler, who along with Dashiell Hammett perfected the American hardboiled detective novel, died a lonely man. A mere seventeen people attended his funeral.

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Film Noir, at Its Noirest

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Mitchum, Film Noir, Dashiell Hammett, Kirk Douglas, James M. Cain, Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Otto Preminger, Best Film Noir, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Raymond Chandler, Thirteen/WNET, John Huston, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Burr, Samuel Fuller, Richard Widmark, Cloris Leachman, Dennis Quaid, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News
John Farr

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.

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A Grouch's Guide to Un-Christmas Books

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Dashiell Hammett, Paul Gallico, Christmas Books, Christmas, The Thin Man, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Scrooge, Un-Christmas Books, Santa, Hell House, Mannheim Steamroller, Richard Matheson, Booksellers, Christmas Tree, Nick and Nora Charles, Books, Christmastime, 007, Casper, Blofeld, James Bond, The Poseidon Adventure, Yule, Spectre, Noël, Christmas Gift, Books News
Laurence Hughes

An un-Christmas book takes place at Christmastime, but its tone, story and subject matter have nothing to do with the season. It provides perfect cover when the Noël nags accuse you of being a holiday poop.

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