Monday, February 14, 2005

Feature | Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About the Black Bird Feature | Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About the Black Bird The Maltese Falcon was published 50 years ago today. Last week The San Francisco Chronicle ran some nice features about the book, the author, and the movie. Today, January magazine has a nice package of four features. Highly recommended, but better yet would be an evening spent with the book. Odd that it was published on Valentin's Day: there's no less "romantic" book to be had. About as close to romantic as Spade gets is when he tells Brigid, "if they hang you I'll always remember you." Yow! 8:44:21 AM    comment []

P. G. Wodehouse - Plum in Trouble P. G. Wodehouse - Plum in Trouble: P.G. Wodehouse died 30 years ago today. On this day in 1975 P. G. "Plum" Wodehouse died, aged ninety-three. Given the hundred books and the three-dozen musicals, it seems reasonable to believe the account of Wodehouse's final moments which has him collapsing after picking up the pen and papers his exasperated wife had thrown across his hospital room. But the other account is good, too: he died alone, his pipe and tobacco pouch in his lap, the manuscript of his next book on the table beside his chair. 8:31:37 AM    comment []

On Grammy Night, an Elegy for A Folk Hero (washingtonpost.com) On Grammy Night, an Elegy for A Folk Hero (washingtonpost.com): "" (Via .) 8:24:09 AM    comment []

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