»This year [2009] marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of V. C. Andrews’s Flowers in the Attic, the best-selling novel about incest, imprisoned children, and very, very bad parenting. Andrews went on to write six more books, each one beloved by millions of readers, mostly young women, and each a play on the same themes that made Flowers wonderful and unique: lust, violence, and pain. For two generations now, a private ritual of female adolescence has been reading Andrews’s spine-creased paper-backs, often passed down from an older, wiser girl with the whispered promise of secret knowledge hidden between the covers.«
»Lefty Gomez said his secret was »Clean living, and a fast outfield.« Mine is something like that.«
Elmore Leonard
Jon Wiener met Elmore Leonard, who died on August 20 at age 87, a couple of times. In 2000 Mr. Wiener spoke with Mr. Leonard, after he had just published Pagan Babies, a comic novel on the unlikely subject of genocide in Rwanda. Read the interview at The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Podcast | The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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Podcast | The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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Podcast | The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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Podcast | The High Window by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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Podcast | Farewell,My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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Podcast | The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Dramatised by Bill Morrison.
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In 1958, Ian Fleming interviewed Raymond Chandler for the BBC in London. Listen to the interview in four parts. To select a part, please click on the playlist symbol.
