Sublime

check out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of seventeen short stories featuring Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter and boozing hack trying to still make a living in Hollywood.

“What’s the line? ‘Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.’ ” “What’s that?” “Raymond Chandler. On how the private detective must be a man of honor. Of course, he had never been one. Dashiell Hammett was one, and he had different ideas.”