Shut Your Response Hole: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

from Between The Covers · host Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones

This week, Stacey and Jay discuss the 50th book on Jay’s list of the Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective novel The Big Sleep. Our culture’s dark and complicated detective trope comes from this brilliantly written crime story. Chaos Reader dips into a how-to book for a big life change.

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