Over at the Los Angeles Times, Richard Rayner reviews The Long Embrace - Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman. The book focusses on Raymond Chandler and his obsession with another man’s wife.
Freeman traces the ups and downs of the marriage and career with utmost delicacy. We spend time with Billy Wilder [...]
Can this be true? Or is it just a report by Reuters?
Finland, followed by France, offers working people the most statutory vacation, at more than six weeks per year, the report, an international snapshot of how much paid leave people get by law and in practice in 21 countries, says.
The United States is the [...]
I’m not the biggest fan of Elvis Presley. He’s all right . . . he gets the job done. But he’s not quite 50 Cent or Eminem. British Tennis number one Andy Murray before he played a tournament in Memphis.
And, it is rumoured that the nineteen-year-old Scot has collected £1million from Random House for his [...]
I spoke to a small group of writers last evening and we touched on the subject of showing your readers’ a good time. How some writers, without leaving home, can go out into the world and be sociable with ink on paper.
These people are excellent blind-dates who, nevertheless, work in complete solitude.
Being able to write [...]
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