Steph Cha, author of 'Your House Will Pay,' explains how Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep,' her neighbor on the Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, changed her life.
The 13 most essential L.A. crime books — from Chandler, Hughes, Mosley and Ellroy to Steph Cha and Ivy Pochoda, with some ‘Helter Skelter’ in between.
Because of course I tried to copy him. He wrote with such irresistible excess and panache. He’d load up on high-flying similes and florid descriptions — of being “as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets,” of plants “with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.” Then he’d hit you with a line of perfect weight and clarity — “He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn’t owe too much money.” Or one of my favorites: “Me, I was part of the nastiness now.
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