Raymond Chandler, author of hardboiled detective classics The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye among many others, isn’t exactly known for his silly side. But apparently, he once wrote a… Read more »

Today, we’re awfully excited to be publishing Lavie Tidhar’s A Man Lies Dreaming in paperback! It’s a book we’ve compared to Raymond Chandler, with its “exquisite, obsessive descriptions; the shadowy urban landscapes; and… Read more »

Last week, we wrote about the contemporary craze for visual art made from the pages of old books. While we didn’t mention the work of artist Steve Wolfe, whose death last month was… Read more »

The publishing industry is no stranger to sequels and relaunches and other brand-fortifying tricks perfected by Hollywood. In the last couple of years, Sebastian Faulks published a new book based… Read more »

There are few greater gulfs than the one between the realities of daily life for young, poor, and not-yet-famous writers and the hysterical gaiety they pump into the works of… Read more »

Raymond Chandler, author of seven novels including The Big Sleep and former president of the Mystery Writers of America, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next… Read more »

Last week saw the highly-anticipated release of the film The Counselor, and since the film hit theaters on October 25th the reviews have been pouring in. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning… Read more »

Jakob Arjouni, one of our authors and one of our friends, died in Berlin Wednesday, after a long battle against pancreatic cancer… Read more »

There’s a long tradition of scathing notes sent by writers to proofreaders and copy editors. Raymond Chandler, writing to a copy editor at the Atlantic Monthly in 1947, told her… Read more »

To celebrate our launch of The Factory Series — four seminal crime novels from the “godfather of British noir,” Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond — we present ten of the… Read more »