Ten Things to Read on the 50th Anniversary of Raymond Chandler's Death

• "Marlowe Goes to the Movies" at The Rap Sheet
• Carolyn Kellogg's account of a Chandler panel featuring Denise Hamilton, Judith Freeman, Leo Braudy, and Kenneth Turan
• Freeman pays tribute to Chandler in the LA Weekly
• Gregory McNamee on POODLE SPRINGS, the unfinished novel Robert B. Parker finished up 20 years ago (via)
• Larry Harnisch goes through the LA Times' morgue for vintage Chandler articles
• The Penguin Blog recounts the arduous task of hunting down first edition dust jackets of Chandler's novels, which paid off in a handsome way in this month's hardcover reissues of THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, LITTLE SISTER and THE LONG GOODBYE by Hamish Hamilton (all of which now sit at the top of my TBR piles, waiting to be read on my next trip)
• A fill-in-the-blank Chandler quiz at Read Street
• Chris Routledge looks at Chandler's early life
• Isaac Adamson's essay at Legacy.com (via)
• And Tom Williams' blog about writing a biography of Raymond Chandler.

Comments

[Graham Powell]

Egad, I read the POODLE SPRINGS piece, and... I read that book as a junior in college. Twenty years ago. Damn, I'm old.

[Dana King]

Thanks for these links. I dscovered Chandler about twelve years ago, and learned through him what I like about any book. I, too, always thought it was the story or plot, but it's the writing that brings me back to all my favorites. They can have divergent styles (the three who share my Pantheon are Chandler, Elmore Leonard, and Ed MCBain), but the way the story is told is far more important to me than what the story is about.

My favorite Chandler quote: From thirty feet she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet.