Tag: books
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More Raymond Chandler Evenings
Another storm, this one with hail, and some more Raymond Chandler thoughts as I listen to Robyn Hitchcock play “Yesterday’s Rain” in an online concert. We’ve been watching Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Altman’s The Long Goodbye this week. It’s a deliberately paced work with oodles of groovy atmosphere, transposed, as it is, to…
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Mountain Crime Fiction and Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s The Retreat
The premise of my book project is that place is central to storytelling in Canadian crime fiction. The novels I analyze are set in locations as diverse as tiny fishing villages in Newfoundland, the Foothills of the Rockies, and Vancouver’s bucolic UBC campus (very thinly disguised). In each work, the physical locale, including climate, landscape,…
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Canada Reads and Thrillers: Not a Good Fit?
The sample size is two, so this is a limited basis on which to draw a conclusion, but it’s interesting: last year Samantha M. Bailey’s domestic suspense thriller was the first book eliminated from the Canada Reads competition, and this year it’s Iain Reid’s Foe. I haven’t read Foe, which is a thriller written in…
