I am packed. I dug out my travel toiletries, picked out the books for the long plane ride, rolled up my black and gray clothing, and emptied the SD card on my camera. I called my mom. I listened to French music while I was working this week. I set my away-message on my workContinue reading “Un Grand Merci”
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“Sorry if I let my brains show”: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is grim and funny, its protagonist, Philip Marlowe, half hardboiled and mean, half incorruptible and true. The Long Goodbye is a detective novel, but thanks to Marlowe’s narration the story resonates beyond a narrow classification. The quality of Marlowe’s observation as a narrator fills in the backstory the reader needs,Continue reading ““Sorry if I let my brains show”: Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye”
Grey Sea & Sky 