The Summer of Dashiell Hammett Begins!
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The Summer of Dashiell Hammett Begins!
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We launch the Summer of Dashiell Hammett with our deep dive on the Continental Op, the unnamed private investigator who starred in 28 stories and two novels. The San Francisco-based Op delivered a hardboiled fist to the drawing rooms, tea parties, and other twee scenarios that constituted detective fiction before his advent, changing the face of the genre forever.
We also dug into Angel Down, the most recent Pulitzer winner for fiction, and found this story of a celestial being who is dragged through the muck of World War I’s trenches compelling in spite of the gimmick that Nate didn’t like.
Works cited this episode:
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse, Dashiell Hammett
“This King Business,” Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Tenth Clew,” Dashiell Hammett
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth and Method, Hans-Georg Gadamer
Angel Down, Daniel Kraus
Herscht 07769, László Krasznahorkai
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
ttyl, Lauren Myracle
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Odyssey, Homer
O Brother Where Art Thou, dir. Ethan and Joel Coen