A thousand thanks for uploading this totally intriguing, informative & enjoyable interview ! Two great writers having an intelligent conversation who clearly had a lot of mutual admiration ! You've MADE my day & my week ! CHEERS ! :-)
Been on a Chandler for a few days and decided to type his name into the youtube search, and what a pleasant surprise to find this time-capsule of a conversation. Thanks for posting!
Most "old farts" have already forgotten what young airheads still have to learn, that is the problem. This interview is irony meeting flippancy - so true to their respective styles. Chandler is a cross cultural character - american 'can do bluntness' overlaid on British 'self aware mocking'. Not many authors are like that.
Flemming has a good point on how publishers often sadly let a lot of great books just go out of print, and be all but forgotten. Fortunately, that wasn't the case for Flemming or Chandler. Great interview!
What a sweet chat. Was Fleming meant to be interviewing or did he just take on that role to keep the conversation moving? Priceless little insights in there.
its strange.....RC is FAMOUS for his essay which details how REAL phillip marlowe is in comparison to christie and hammett and so many others and yet HERE he admits that marlowe is FAR from REAL...hmm
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Thanks very much. I'm a very recently converted Chandler fanatic. This lived up to my hopes and put a smile on my face.
A thousand thanks for uploading this totally intriguing, informative & enjoyable interview ! Two great writers having an intelligent conversation who clearly had a lot of mutual admiration ! You've MADE my day & my week ! CHEERS ! :-)
This is absolutely interesting and very poigent. Moving me to re-read all their books.
Been on a Chandler for a few days and decided to type his name into the youtube search, and what a pleasant surprise to find this time-capsule of a conversation. Thanks for posting!
And six years later, in other part of the world, the same happen again
If only Arthur Conan Doyle could have been a part of this conversation. The perfect trinity of writing geniuses.
Most "old farts" have already forgotten what young airheads still have to learn, that is the problem. This interview is irony meeting flippancy - so true to their respective styles. Chandler is a cross cultural character - american 'can do bluntness' overlaid on British 'self aware mocking'. Not many authors are like that.
'Suitable for Framing' - what a brilliant title . Thanks for posting this great interview , phutato . A real treat .
Great interview. Thanks.
i LOVE the end of this int!...they recommend authors to each other!
Delightful. Thank you for sharing.
Mentioned in Diamonds Are Forever. Chapter 10
Thank you so much 'phutato' for uploading this Chandler-Flemming interview. A real, rare gem.
This is divine!
Flemming has a good point on how publishers often sadly let a lot of great books just go out of print, and be all but forgotten.
Fortunately, that wasn't the case for Flemming or Chandler.
Great interview!
Thanks a lot!
Yes, the Studillack a Studebaker with a Cadillac engine.
"Gum-Shoe? (The kind of guy who always found himself liable, to end up in a sticky-situation?)"
Thx.. I'll try to digest it n Smile
What a sweet chat. Was Fleming meant to be interviewing or did he just take on that role to keep the conversation moving? Priceless little insights in there.
The transcript misses A LOT towards the end. A shame, really.
can someone translate what Fleming was saying in the flip over between 3 & 4, why England doesn't have private eyes?
its strange.....RC is FAMOUS for his essay which details how REAL phillip marlowe is in comparison to christie and hammett and so many others
and yet HERE he admits that marlowe is FAR from REAL...hmm
RC...the "private -eye is a catalyst...he doesnt exist in real life"
Marlowe should never have married, Made him too ordinary, lost his knight-like aura of mystery and unreachability.