About this episode
We’re leaving speculative genres for just a moment! Author Max Gladstone joins to discuss style & structure in Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled classic The Big Sleep, a work that’s been massively influential across SFF literature, games, & film.
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Guest: Max Gladstone
Title: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Host:Jake Casella Brookins
Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
Additional music from David Hilowitz’s “Future Cities”, CC BY-NC 4.0
And a couple of seconds from the end of The Mountain Goats’ “Cadaver Sniffing Dog”
Artwork byRob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
References:
Stranger Things
Metro City by Kurt Busiec et al.
Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
Kieron Gillan
Balsam Karam's Event Horizon
John Darnielle's This Year
Song Exploder episode on the Mountain Goats song “Cadaver Sniffing Dog”
'Pataphysics
Waigong & neigong
Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
Dorothy Parker
William Gibson
L.A. Confidential, dir. Curtis Hanson
Tracer Bullet in Bill Waterson’s Calvin & Hobbes
Snoopy in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts
Dashiel Hammett
Haruki Murakami'sHard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light & The Dead Man's Brother
The Raymond Chandler Papers, edited by Tom Hiney & Frank McShane
James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity
