"THAT BROKEN, BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL MAN IS SOMEONE I WANTED TO WRITE FOR": RAYMOND CHANDLER'S TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS' ARVIND ETHAN DAVID
Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business adapted by Arvind Ethan David (script), Ilias Kyriazis (pencil and inks), and Chris Peter colorist) tells the authors short Philip Marlowe story with with cinematic style with the graphic novel form. We caught up with Arvind Ethan David to talk about Chandler and interpreting, correcting me when he had to…
Raymond Chandler and California
Of all the great writers who might be a poet laureate of California, Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep, godfather of noir, and creator of the iconic P.I. Philip Marlowe, surely wins…
The free world and the hour change
Arvind Ethan David asks why liberal democracies have stuck it out with daylight saving, while authoritarian states have ditched it
I have on my desk a literary digital clock.
No, that's not a hallucination of the AI writing this article. Like Doja Cat, I said what I said: a literary digital clock. It is a gift from my fiancé, a rectangular prism in brass and pixels which displays a block of text on an OCD screen which changes every minute.
This minute, it reads:...
Jeeves and the Big Sleep
My father, who is 78 and lives in Malaysia, has lunch once a week with a group of his high school classmates. I’m in awe, and not a little envious, that he has a group of friends who are so committed to each other that they convene weekly, six decades after they first met…
Arvind Ethan David searches for unlikely threads connecting Chandler and Wodehouse