The Rap Sheet: One More Candle on the Cake

Our birthday wishes go out to editor, publisher, and New York bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler, who today celebrates his 68th birthday.

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“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity

Thursday, July 08, 2010

One More Candle on the Cake

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