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David Murdock Column: On floating down the stream of consciousness
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThere is an old technique in literature called “stream of consciousness.” The basic idea comes from...
Rare Raymond Chandler poem is a tribute to his late wife, with a surprising twist
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNear the end of 1954, the wife of Raymond Chandler died after a long battle with lung disease....
America Has a Love Affair With Exclamation Points!
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Javier Zayas—Getty Images Crazy! Lol!! Super!!! In a nation of ecstasists that uses expressions like great to describe everything from a cup of...
These historic and modern books have Knoxville at the heart of the story | Know Your Knox
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe death of Cormac McCarthy in June 2023 reminded many of the acclaimed writer's close ties to...
Ireland to Memphis: Acclaimed, troubled musician John Murry returns for Indie Memphis
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 6 months ago“I love this city,” says musician John Murry, chain-smoking French cigarettes on the back porch of a...
Two rare Shirley Jackson stories published this week
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoShirley Jackson had a gift for evoking the depths of anxiety in the space it might take to summarize a baseball game. Two very brief and previously unreleased stories, “Charlie Roberts” and ...
Word from the Smokies: George Ellison — too much and not enough
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen I got a text from Elizabeth Ellison on the morning of Feb. 9 that George was in the hospital...
10 history-making Latinos who died in 2022
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSeveral Latinos whose lives and work left a profound imprint on American institutions — from arts and entertainment to legal and civil rights — died in...
Philip Marlowe perfume, anyone? Raymond Chandler's estate revives its hero, for better or worse
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(Paul Rogers / For The Times) Like a private eye sizing up the details of a dicey new case, Joe Ide...
'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe freeways, the smog, the people, the culture, the intellect — nothing and no one is spared when...
