The wild, funny, sexy noir that helped launch a new era of crime fiction. Read more
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The wild, funny, sexy noir that helped launch a new era of crime fiction. Read more
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Ed Brubaker, author of the Reckless series of graphic novels, who is currently collaborating with Harper on a television project, compares Harper’s work to legendary figures in L.A. crime fiction: “‘Everybody Knows’ feels like Chandler crossed with Ellroy but with Michael Connelly’s knowledge of L.A.” Read more
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From the heartland to the blood-soaked streets of Chicago to the Sierra Nevada mountains, W. R. Burnett refracted the myth of American prosperity through the nihilistic lens of noir, revealing a world built on empty hopes and false promises. Read more
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Eddie Muller’s book, Dark City, chronicles film noir from the ’40s and ’50s. “A lot of factors … go into making something of film noir,” he says, including, a “very dark vision of existence.” Read more
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