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Several writers in recent years have resuscitated Raymond Chandler’s iconic Los Angeles sleuth Philip Marlowe. In “The Goodbye Coast,” the talented Joe Ide, author of the Isaiah “IQ” Quintabe ...
Joe Ide, the mystery novelist, is most known for his creation of Isaiah Quintabe, or IQ, a young Black man in Long Beach whose intelligence rivals Sherlock Holmes. But this winter the South ...
At a Writers Bloc forum, the Man Booker-winning novelist talked about penning a new tale involving the classic pulp detective. By Thea Klapwald The Black Eyed Blonde Book Cover - P 2014 What do ...
As only the third author ever authorized by Raymond Chandler's estate to write a Philip Marlowe novel, Lawrence Osborne declares, in his postscript to “Only to Sleep,” that the task was “perilous.” He ...
How odd it is to step into another writer's shoes. To pull on the suit of his most famous character and dance around in it for a little while. You gotta have a reason to do something like that. You've ...