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Links OTHER STUFF THAT RICHARD RAYNER HAS WRITTEN, RELATING TO LOS ANGELES AND A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE After The Movie: Here’s a short story that Richard Rayner published in the New Yorker, set in contemporary. It’s about a failing writer, Ed Vickery, and his friendship with Muldoon, a bigwig film director. Part of a series of linked Los Angeles fictional stories that Richard has underway... http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/04/30/070430fi_fiction_rayner Robert Redford: A Los Angeles icon if ever there was one. Here’s a link to the New Yorker archive of a profile that Richard wrote. You’ll have to register with the magazine to read the full thing. http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1998-05-18#folio=060 Fashion Guru: Another Los Angeles thing that Richard did in the New Yorker archive. A funny piece about Malcolm Levene, style therapist. Only in L.A! http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1998-07-20#folio=037 Oscar Hartzell – The Greatest Confidence Man?: Yet more from the New Yorker archive. This is the piece that was extracted from Richard’s book ‘Drake’s Fortune’, relevant here in that it’s about crime, and set, like ‘A Bright and Guilty Place’, in the 1920s and the early years of the Great Depression. http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2002-04-22#folio=150 This Town Is Rated Noir: This is an essay from the Los Angeles Times, about the growth of the noir genre and its particular association with L.A. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/history/la-et-125noir3dec03,0,1678791.story They Made Crime Pay: This is a review Richard did of ‘The Black Lizard Bog Book of Pulps’, a fabulous anthology of 1920s and 1930s crime fiction edited by Otto Penzler. Leslie White, one of the principals in ‘A Bright and Guilty Place’, has a couple of stores in here. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/02/books/bk-rayner2 Raymond Chandler: The writer Judith Freeman has written a beautiful book called ‘The Long Embrace’, in which Chandler’s writing career and relationship with Los Angeles, a city he wrote about more lyrically and knowingly than anybodsy, is paralleled with the story of his strange marriage. Richard reviewed the book for the Los Angeles Times, and adds some of his own observations about Chandler along the way. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/04/books/bk-rayner4 |
