Mark asked: Was there an excuse for all of the
Chandler?
The movies were part of a push for the publication of "The
Collected Stories" of Raymond Chandler, a massive Everyman's
Library hardcover that purports to be "the first complete
collection of Chandler's short fiction available in one
volume."
Actually, they missed one -- "A Couple of Writers." It's a
rarity, mainsteam fiction, written for sale to slick
magazines but too downbeat for them to buy it. To my
knowledge it first appeared in "Raymond Chandler Speaking." I
got the editor of "Written By," the magazine of the Writers
Guild of America (West), to include it in last month's issue
which was devoted to fiction by mystery writers who also pen
screenplays. As far as I can tell, it's the story's first and
only magazine appearance.
Dick Lochte
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