"released on May 1, 2007. Chabon has said that the novel was difficult to write, calling it ""an exercise in restraint all around... The sentences are much shorter than my typical sentences; my paragraphs are shorter than my typical paragraphs."" He also described the novel as an homage to the writing of mystery writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald, along with Russian writer Isaac Babel. The book's original cover art by Will Staehle features an amalgam of styles (like the novel itself), drawing on classic pulp detective novel, Jewish imagery, and art from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska,"
"a predilection for certain casts of characters and certain settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. A typical plot of the Golden Age mystery followed these lines: An American reaction to the cozy convention of British murder mysteries was the American hardboiled school of crime writing (certain works in the field are also referred to as noir fiction). Writers like Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), Jonathan Latimer (1906–1983), Mickey Spillane (1918–2006), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction. This created whole new stereotypes of crime fiction writing."
"era. ""I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does"". Raymond Chandler, often considered Hammett's successor, summarized his accomplishments in ""The Simple Art of Murder"": Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of, ""The Glass Key"", is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all."
"respect to later Depression-era novels, such as ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"". Hammett's distinctive and groundbreaking style helped usher in the hardboiled genre. ""The Glass Key"", written in Hammett's later noir years, is a prime example of his stylistic power. Raymond Chandler, a 20th-century author and critic, discussed Hammett's sense of the modern world in ""The Glass Key"": William Kennedy, also a 20th-century author and book critic, explained what is so complex about Hammett's writing style: ""Hammett's strategy is to show the process of detection as motivated by and affecting a friendship between two men. Out of these materials Hammett"
"quantitative and analytical treatments of simple and polyatomic fluids, of aqueous solutions and hydrophobic effects, and of polymeric melts and blends. He also developed the methods by which rare but important events can be simulated on a computer, techniques that culminated in Chandler's development of a statistical physics of trajectory space. This work enabled his studies of systems far from equilibrium, including processes of self-assembly and the glass transition. Chandler died on April 18, 2017 in Berkeley, California, at the age of 72. Chandler's honors include the Hildebrand and Theoretical Chemistry Awards from the American Chemical Society, the Irving Langmuir"
"and creative friends included not only such towering figures as Langston Hughes and Richard Wright; it also included figures such as Malcolm X, Carl Van Vechten, Picasso, Jean Miotte, Ollie Harrington, Nikki Giovanni and Ishmael Reed. Bohemian life in Paris would in turn lead them to the South of France and finally on to Spain, where they lived until Chester's death in 1984. In 1969 Himes moved to Moraira, Spain, where he died in 1984 from Parkinson's disease. He is buried at Benissa cemetery. Some regard Chester Himes as the literary equal of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Ishmael Reed"
"magazine that launched the careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Coggins has worked in the Silicon Valley for such companies as Hewlett Packard and Netscape and although Riordan as a character is something of a technophobe, Coggins' novels often explore high technology themes and Silicon Valley culture. Coggins' first book, ""The Immortal Game"", dealt with the theft of chess-playing software similar to that run on Deep Blue and was nominated for the Shamus Award<ref name=""www.http://www.thrillingdetective.com"">The Shamus Awards, thrillingdetective.com.</ref> and the Barry Award. ""Runoff"" described a fictional mayoral election in San Francisco where the results were altered by individuals who"
"Raymond Chandler bibliography Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived in the US until he was seven, when his parents separated and his Anglo-Irish mother brought him to live near London; he was educated at Dulwich College from 1900. After working briefly for the British Civil Service, he became a part-time teacher at Dulwich, supplementing his income as a journalist and writer—mostly for ""The Westminster Gazette"" and ""The Academy"". His output—consisting largely of poems and essays—was not to his taste, and his biographer Paul Bishop considers the work as ""lifeless"","
"exemplified in the work of Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. In his 1944 critical essay ""The Simple Art of Murder"", Raymond Chandler wrote of Hammett's themes and style: Steve Threefall accepts a bet with a hotelier in Whitetufts that he can drive a friend’s Ford non-stop across the desert with no supplies but liquor. After two days driving, he careens through the main street of a desert boom town named Izzard, Arizona. He narrowly misses knocking down a young woman. He mumbles a drunken apology but she ignores him. His car ends up smashed into the"
"Daniel Chandler Daniel Chandler (born 1952) is a British visual semiotician based since 2001 at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, where he has taught since 1989. His best-known publication is ""Semiotics: The Basics"" (Routledge: 1st edn 2002, 2nd edn 2007), which is frequently used as a basis for university courses in semiotics, and the online version ""Semiotics for Beginners"" (online since 1995). He has a particular interest in the visual semiotics of gender and advertising. Chandler trained as a schoolteacher at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and began his career teaching English in middle and secondary"
"Several authors excelled, after successfully misleading their readers, in revealing an unlikely suspect as the real villain of the story. They often had a predilection for certain casts of characters and settings, with the secluded English country house at the top of the list. One reaction to the conventionality of British murder mysteries was American ""hard-boiled"" crime fiction, epitomized by the writings of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane, among others. Though the settings were grittier, the violence more abundant and the style more colloquial, plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as"
"two early short stories that were included in a collection, but their first printing is unknown. Chandler left an unfinished novel when he died. This was completed by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989 as ""Poodle Springs"". Many of Chandler's works were used as the basis for films. The following are where he is credited as the writer of the performed script. Raymond Chandler bibliography Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived in the US until he was seven, when his parents separated and his Anglo-Irish mother brought him"
"turned the magazine into an outlet for the growing school of naturalistic crime writers led by Carroll John Daly. Daly's private detective Race Williams was a rough-and-ready character with a sharp tongue, establishing a model for many later acerbic private eyes. ""Black Mask"" later published stories by the profoundly influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and The Continental Op, and other hardboiled writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Paul Cain, Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Raoul F. Whitfield, Theodore Tinsley, Todhunter Ballard (as W.T. Ballard), Dwight V. Babcock, and Roger Torrey. The"
"oft-cited essay ""The Simple Art of Murder"" that Hammett and other hardboiled writers created a style that removed the puzzle-game intrigues of typical detective novels and instead replaced it with realism: ""Where murder is committed for reasons, and people talk and act as real people do"". Chandler argued that it is due to these authors that this style is developed and raised from a generic form to a ""new level of artistic substance"". Together with Hammett's 1929 novel ""Red Harvest"", ""The Glass Key"" provided inspiration for the Coen brothers' 1990 film ""Miller's Crossing"". The 1942 film adaptation appears briefly in"
"began his academic career as an assistant professor in 1970 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, rising through the ranks to become a full professor in 1977. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 1986, Chandler spent two years as professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Chandler's primary area of research was statistical mechanics. With it, he created many of the basic techniques with which condensed matter chemical equilibrium and chemical dynamics are understood with molecular theory. He provided the modern language and concepts for describing structure and dynamics of liquids, a series of contributions that has allowed"
"interconnectedness of botany, agriculture, and horticulture in pomology studies and practice. William Henry Chandler (botanist) William Henry Chandler (July 31, 1878 – October 29, 1970) was an American botanist and horticulturalist specializing in pomology (fruit). He was a professor and department head at: Cornell University from 1913 to 1923; and in the University of California system from 1923 to 1948. He moved to California in 1926, and became the dean of the Departments of Agriculture at both UC Berkeley and UC Davis. In 1938 he became assistant dean of a new branch of the UC College of Agriculture at UCLA,"
"the early life of one of those heroes: Dashiell Hammett, the originator of the hard-boiled crime novel. As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century. Atkins' 2010 novel ""Infamous"" is based on the 1933 Charles Urschel kidnapping and subsequent misadventures of the gangster spouses George ""Machine Gun"" and Kathryn Kelly. In 2011 Atkins was selected by the estate of Robert B. Parker to take over writing the Spenser series of novels. ""The Boston Globe"" wrote that while some people might"
"and literary critics alike. The Lew Archer novels are recognized as some of the most significant American mystery books of the mid 20th century, bringing a literary sophistication to the genre. The critic John Leonard declared that Macdonald had surpassed the limits of crime fiction to become ""a major American novelist"". He has also been called the primary heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American hardboiled mysteries. Macdonald's writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters. Their plots of ""baroque splendor"" were"
"The Simple Art of Murder The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in ""The Atlantic Monthly"" in December 1944. The magazine article appeared in the ""Saturday Review of Literature"", April 15, 1950. The article, somewhat rewritten, served to introduce the collection ""The Simple Art of Murder"", 1950 (Houghton Mifflin Co.), which contained eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, ""The Big Sleep"". The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism. Although Chandler's primary topic is"
"Red Harvest Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). The labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road massacre. ""Time"" included ""Red Harvest"" in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book ""a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror."" ""Red Harvest"" was originally serialized"
"the quintessential Marlowe. At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces: ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1940), ""The Little Sister"" (1949), and ""The Long Goodbye"" (1953). ""The Long Goodbye"" was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as ""arguably the first book since Hammett's ""The Glass Key"", published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery"". Chandler's reputation has grown in recent years. Chandler was born in 1888 in Chicago, the son of Florence Dart (Thornton) and Maurice Benjamin Chandler. He spent his early"
"Rowan Hamilton, famous for work in classical mechanics and the invention of quaternions. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's contribution of the Edgeworth Box remains influential in neo-classical microeconomic theory to this day; while Richard Cantillon inspired Adam Smith, among others. John B. Cosgrave was a specialist in number theory and discovered a 2000-digit prime number in 1999 and a record composite Fermat number in 2003. John Lighton Synge made progress in different fields of science, including mechanics and geometrical methods in general relativity. He had mathematician John Nash as one of his students. Kathleen Lonsdale, born in Ireland and most known for"
"three textbooks. His superior teaching talent was formally recognized in 1969 when he was awarded a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. Notable and unusual is the physically motivated discussion of the functions of vector calculus in the book with Sokolnikoff. He is known for the Redheffer matrix, and for (with Charles Eames) designing a timeline of mathematics entitled ""Men of Modern Mathematics"" that was printed and widely distributed in 1966 by IBM; he also collaborated with Eames on a series of short films about mathematics, and may have invented the first computer game (a version of Nim with electronic components). Raymond"
"Marple says, ""There is never anything simple about murder."" The Simple Art of Murder The Simple Art of Murder is hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler's critical essay, a magazine article, and his collection of short stories. The essay was first published in ""The Atlantic Monthly"" in December 1944. The magazine article appeared in the ""Saturday Review of Literature"", April 15, 1950. The article, somewhat rewritten, served to introduce the collection ""The Simple Art of Murder"", 1950 (Houghton Mifflin Co.), which contained eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, ""The Big Sleep"". The essay is considered a seminal"
"that ""usually deals with criminal activity in a modern urban environment, a world of disconnected signs and anonymous strangers."" ""Told in stark and sometimes elegant language through the unemotional eyes of new hero-detectives, these stories were an American phenomenon."" In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced ""operative's report"" style of Hammett's Continental Op stories. Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich"
"and coal. The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada 1930s–1960s, and is still used by some. After 1930 the historical school declined or disappeared in most economics departments. It lingered in history departments and business schools. The major influence in the 1930s and 1940s was Joseph Schumpeter with his dynamic, change-oriented, and innovation-based economics. Although his writings could be critical of the school, Schumpeter's work on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship can be seen as a continuation of ideas originated by the historical school, especially the work of von Schmoller and Sombart. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007), had"
"treatment, and amelioration of health disorders, and the improvement and cost-effectiveness of health services. Sackett was the founding chair of the first department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the world at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1967, and extensively contributed to the development of research methods through his books and published articles, as well as through education and lectures at McMaster and around the world. Notably, he turned clinical research into a scientifically sound and practical, multidisciplinary ""team sport"" and has changed for the better the quality of health care research and clinical practice. In the late 1970s,"
"saw it and was not about to let a murderous act go unpunished, even if it meant risking his own life to bring his friend's killers to justice. ""The Guardian""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s obituary of Francis read, ""Right from the start, with ""Dead Cert"" in 1962, the Dick Francis thriller showed a mastery of lean, witty genre prose reminiscent -- sometimes to the point of comic parody -- of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It was an American style that many clever people in England had attempted to reproduce without much success, and it was a wonder how a barely educated former jump"
"The Glass Key The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in ""Black Mask"" magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later) It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the"
"his secretary; Sonia Orwell (George Orwell's widow); and Natasha Spender (Stephen Spender's wife). Chandler regained his U.S. citizenship in 1956. After a respite in England, he returned to La Jolla. He died at Scripps Memorial Hospital of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia (according to the death certificate) in 1959. Helga Greene inherited Chandler's $60,000 estate, after prevailing in a 1960 lawsuit filed by Fracasse contesting Chandler's holographic codicil to his will. Chandler is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, in San Diego, California. As Frank MacShane noted in his biography, ""The Life of Raymond Chandler"", Chandler wished to be"
"Joseph Everett Chandler Joseph Everett Chandler (December 11, 1863 – August 19, 1945) is considered a major proponent of the Colonial Revival architecture. Joseph Everett Chandler was the son of a butcher. He grew up driving carriage-loads of tourists around Plymouth to see its sites. Chandler attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and was an apprentice of McKim, Mead & White, Charles Howard Walker, William Pretyman, Burnham and Root, and Rotch & Tilden. He is considered a pioneering designer of queer space. He designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew, which inspired interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper to build"
"most significant musical references, Bergen also spoke of his preference for the vinyl format, explaining that his favourite albums would need to be ""played on vinyl for the extra added crackle and pop"". Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are Bergen's foremost literary ""heroes""—in 2013 Bergen cited Chandler’s ""The Big Sleep"" and Hammett’s ""The Maltese Falcon"" as his all-time favorite books. However, throughout Bergen's writing career he has also identified numerous artists who have influenced his short story, comic, novel and graphic novel work: Michael Chabon, Shuichi Yoshida, Jedediah Berry, Heath Lowrance, Josh Stallings, Nicholas Christopher, Ryu Murakami, Katsuhiro Otomo, Will"
"1930s and 1940s United States masters of the hard-boiled genre, particularly Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Allan Guthrie's work shows their influence, as does some of Ian Rankin. More recent American authors who have influenced Scottish writing include James Ellroy, whose focus on police and societal corruption has proven especially resonant with Rankin. Scottish crime writing has also been influenced by European traditions. For instance, Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret goes after the criminals, but refuses to judge them, seeing crime as a human situation to be understood. William McIlvanney's novel ""Laidlaw"" (1977), with its lead character of Inspector Jack Laidlaw,"