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Here he was, slapping him five, grabbing his shoulder, and talking too loud in a performance of gregariousness. A walking flinch.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
(If you want to study the master of the well-constructed chapter—and plot and flat-out gorgeous writing—read Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye is my favorite.)
Ann Patchett • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Shelter From The Storm: A Hard-Boiled New Orleans Legal Thriller (Tubby Dubonnet Mystery #4) (The Tubby Dubonnet Series)
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The concept of The Big Lebowski is “Let’s take the genre of the Private Eye Story but make our hero not a hardbitten detective but a sweet, loveable stoner.”
Steven Pressfield • Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It
Write for Your Life, by Lawrence Block.