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    -WIKIPEDIA: Raymond Chandler
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    -INDEX: Raymond Chandler (The Atlantic)
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    -ESSAY: Writers in Hollywood: “Pictures cost a great deal of money—true. The studio spends the money; all the writer spends is his time (and incidentally his life, his hopes, and all the varied experiences, most of them painful, which finally made him into a writer)—this also is true.” (Raymond Chandler, November 1945, The Atlantic)
    -AUDIO STORY: I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler (Classic Detective Stories, 17 February 2024)
    -AUDIO STORY: Goldfish by Raymond Chandler (Classic Detective Stories, Saturday 18 May 2024)
    -ESSAY: Raymond Chandler (Ian Fleming, December 1959, The London Magazine)
    -ESSAY: An Old-Fashioned Future: On the enduring fascination of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. (Peter Hitchens, 12/20/23, American Conservative)
    -ESSAY: THE LITERARY BLOOD FEUD BETWEEN RAYMOND CHANDLER AND ROSS MACDONALD: Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry... (CURTIS EVANS, 10/07/22, CrimeReads)
    -ESSAY: No Big Sleep for Raymond Chandler (Dick Lochte, April 19, 2014, LA Review of Books)
    -ESSAY: The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse: Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors (Arvind Ethan David, May 23, 2025, CrimeReads)
    -ESSAY: Raymond Chandler’s Cinematic Legacy (Koraljka Suton, 9/02/24, Cinephilia & Beyond)
    -ESSAY: WHY DID RAYMOND CHANDLER HATE STRANGERS ON A TRAIN SO INTENSELY?: Chandler's feud with Alfred Hitchcock had a special venom, but why? (DWYER MURPHY, 2/18/21, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines (Dan Sheehan, July 23, 2021, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: ‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts’: Author Raymond Chandler and the Great War (Tom Hawthorn, Winter 2020, HistoryNet)
    -ESSAY: Why Marlowe is still the chief of detectives: Fifty years after Raymond Chandler died, we need his ‘shop-soiled’ Galahad Philip Marlowe as much as ever to put our mixed-up world to rights. (Mick Hume, 12/30/09, Spiked Review of Books)
    -ESSAY: WHY DID RAYMOND CHANDLER HATE STRANGERS ON A TRAIN SO INTENSELY?: Chandler's feud with Alfred Hitchcock had a special venom, but why? (DWYER MURPHY, 2/18/21, Crime Reads)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: CHANDLER AND THE FOX: THE MID-CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN RAYMOND CHANDLER AND JAMES M. FOX: Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years. (CURTIS EVANS, 10/08/20, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Meaning in Mystery: Why Noir Speaks in a Morally Ambiguous World: The Dark Allure of Heartless Criminals and Hardboiled Detectives (adam hill, Nov 09, 2024, Miller's Book Reviews)
    -ESSAY: Can Raymond Chandler & John Steinbeck Help Us Now? (Ralph Gaebler, September 22nd, 2025, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Raymond Chandler's Unseen Story Has Been Published At Last: And here's how you can read it! (Olivia Rutigliano, 9/26/25, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Searching for a Unified Theory of Chandler versus Macdonald: The Necklace and the Tapestry (Frank Ladd, 2/20/26, CrimeReads)
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    -REVIEW ESSAY: IS ALTMAN’S 'THE LONG GOODBYE' THE MOST OVERRATED CRIME FILM OF 1973?: The answer may depend on whether it's actually a crime film. (ANDREW NETTE, 3/23/23, CrimeReads)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Revisit: The Long Goodbye (A.C. Koch, 1/17/23, Spectrum Culture)
    -REVIEW: The Long Goodbye (Pauline Kael, Scraps from the Loft)

Answering a letter in 1951, Chandler wrote, “If being in revolt against a corrupt society constitutes being immature, then Philip Marlowe is extremely immature. If seeing dirt where there is dirt constitutes an inadequate social adjustment, then Philip Marlowe has inadequate so­cial adjustment. Of course Marlowe is a failure, and he knows it. He is a failure because he hasn’t any money. . . . A lot of very good men have been failures because their particular talents did not suit their time and place.” And he cautioned, “But you must remember that Marlowe is not a real person. He is a creature of fantasy. He is in a false position because I put him there. In real life, a man of his type would no more be a private detective than he would be a university don.” Six months later, when his rough draft of The Long Goodbye was criticized by his agent, Chandler wrote back, “I didn’t care whether the mystery was fairly obvious, but I cared about the people, about this strange corrupt world we live in, and how any man who tried to be honest looks in the end either sentimental or plain foolish.”