01/08/2026
Shaking the Money Tree (cont’d)
Working on a spec project that calls for my reading a lot of "pulp noir fiction" from the 1940s and 1950s, the more lurid the better. Spiritual descendants of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, the novelists in this genre tapped into the dark underbelly of American values and behavior after World War II -- and audiences clearly "got it."...