For the record, I would never have known that if I hadn’t read “The Annotated Big Sleep.” Dive in yourself and learn, if you didn’t already know, that the book was cannibalized from two ...

living away from L.A. I took a class on American detective fiction and read “The Big Sleep.” I don’t think there’s any way to overstate this: That book changed my life. As I made my way ...

Which, as the fascinating and essential “Annotated Big Sleep” suggests ... much everything that happens over the course of this book would have happened without his intervention.

This week Mirror Book Club members have been getting to grips with the screwy slang and shady saps of Raymond Chandler's classic crime novel The Big Sleep. Chandler is widely credited as being the ...

The Big Sleep is considered to be an all time best ... Vintage, a US imprint of Penguin Random House, has now put a note on the book noting its 'outdated language and cultural representations'.

He's an L.A. native, book editor, L.A. Times critic-at-large and the founder of the Libros Schmibros Lending Library in Boyle Heights. "'The Big Sleep’ and I think Chandler in general have ...