Raymond Chandler
"I filled a pipe and reached for the packet of paper matches. I lit the pipe carefully. She watched that with approval. Pipe smokers were solid men."
--from Farewell, My Lovely (1942)
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- Michael Borshuk
- MICHAEL BORSHUK is Associate Professor of African American Literature at Texas Tech University. He is the author of SWINGING THE VERNACULAR: JAZZ AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MODERNIST LITERATURE (Routledge, 2006), and numerous essays, reviews, and encyclopedia entries on African American literature, American modernism, and music.
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Chandler's birthday's next Monday, July 23 (1888). Light up in his memory. And here's a recommended read:
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved