HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: a tour of the Doheny Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, site of the still-unsolved 1929 murder mystery that inspired Raymon Chandler and the genre of L.A. noir.

Guest Starring Matt Pegas, author of The Black Album

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In the nuclear fallout of recent cinematic Chernobyls, we turn for guidance to the cool imperial mind of master noticer-storyteller Somerset Maugham, who gave us a timeless satire of literary culture and clout-chasing in his novel Cakes and Ale (1930) and reached some uncomfortable conclusions about the meaning of art in his intellectual memoir The Summing Up (1936).

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Guest starring Matthew Sini and Matt Fresca from the Getting Lit podcast

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Some thoughts on the worst movie ever made, by Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Eureka! Literary treasure has been found. It is called My Search for Warren Harding, and it's about one man's zany scheming quest for literary treasure (the love letters of "the shallowest president in history") in early 1980s Hollywood. It is the funniest thing I have read in a long time, and perhaps the most enjoyable novel ever written about L.A.

Robert Plunket joins me to reflect on how he came to compose this closet masterpiece (1983), his even queerer follow-up Love Junkie (1992), his 30 year career as Mr. Chatterbox (Sarasota's beloved gossip columnist), how he almost swung the 2000 election, his proximity to Bush on 9/11 and Ruebens during PeeWee's 9/11, and what it was like to be raised by spies.

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The rage, the pride, more lessons, and how not to be depressed by the predictable aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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Guest starring Amanda Milius, director of The Plot Against The President.

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Naming names, unamerican activities, and the many subtle lies being deployed to distract you from the meaning of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

With Jack Mason of The Perfume Nationalist

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for the weekend

A tribute to the David Lynch of broadcasting -- the voice of baseball, the voice of summer, the voice of the long Los Angeles afternoon -- the narrator of 67 years of American boyhood, the great Vin Scully.

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Glen Rockney is the co-host of Rare Candy and The Back Wall

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Juicy nuggets from a deep dive into the letters of Raymond Chandler -- on Hammett, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock, Hollywood Jews, Catholics, Communists, the model for Ellsworth Toohey, the writer's life and the craft of writing, and more -- plus the only surviving evidence of his literal voice, from a 1959 interview with Ian Fleming six months before Chandler died.

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Snooping around the House of Pies and the home of Raymond Chandler in Los Feliz, in search of the secrets behind Philip Marlowe. Guest starring Steve Sailer.

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With reference to: The Big Sleep - Farewell, My Lovely - The High Window - The Lady in the Lake - The Simple Art of Murder - The Little Sister - The Long Goodbye - Playback - Raymond Chandler Speaking - The Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler - and all the movie adaptations

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72. Sailer on the Green