Wednesday, 11/11/2009 - 7:30 am
by D.B. Grady
Lead Poisoning with Raymond Chandler
Seventy years ago, Raymond Chandler published The Big Sleep, his first novel, and the opening salvo in a bibliography that would eventually legitimize the hard boiled genre as a true literature. Though he’s been dead for some time, I thought it might be fun to interview him. Undeterred by his interred remains, I’ve rifled through his collected essays and correspondence, and have arranged them in Q and A format. Though he might not have much to say on the war, or health care reform, his thoughts on literature and the crime genre are as refreshing now as the day he put pen to paper.

