Fitzgerald’s Lament

September 24: “Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise...

Rock That Wall!

September 23: “I’m not here for or against any government. I’ve come to play rock’n’roll for you, in the hope that one day all the barriers will be torn down….”  

Two Judys

 The party was set for Thursday, and someone invited the wrong Judy. We wanted the funny Judy with the drinking problem. Someone invited the other Judy, who was nice enough, but not the kind of Judy you’d want at a Thursday night party. When she arrived at...

A Mysterious Something in the Light

Drawing on British and American archives and previously unpublished letters, this definitive biography of Raymond Chandler sheds new light on the hard-boiled writer’s colorful, sometimes troubled existence.