![]() Her most striking gift is for voice, but if her plots aren’t flawless, you can see nonetheless how hard she works to make them very, very good, with just an occasional faint seam showing, nothing more. The contemporary novelist who comes closest to real parity between story and art may be Tana French. Meanwhile Chandler, whom many of the same people (rightly) revere, could never, as he freely admitted, explain who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. She’s an indifferent stylist, sure, but in most of the other ways a writer can be “good” - character, plot, imagination - she’s brilliant. This is why it’s funny when literary novelists who couldn’t write a competent John Wick novelization (I put this challenge squarely to A.S. Almost every writer seems to start out interested either in narrative or talking, story or language, before filling in the rest later. It has the ring of truth to it, unfortunately. “The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.” ![]() ![]() “The perfect detective story cannot be written,” he said. ![]() ![]() I spend a lot of time thinking about a Raymond Chandler quote I once read. ![]()
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