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☆ ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Review: Iced In
  + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“True Detective” was never a series that went in for tender moments, but “True Detective: Night Country” — the show’s fourth season, after a five-year hiatus — takes a particularly unforgiving approach to the human condition. What is happening is that someone is disposing of the dismembered body of the close family member they have just killed. Created for HBO back in 2014 by the writer and English professor Nic Pizzolatto, the original iteration of “True Detective” was a gothic crime drama, in anthology form, marked by Pizzolatto’s penchant for ostensibly profound, quasi-poetic dialogue — Raymond Chandler by way of Rod McKuen. The new season, directed and largely written by the Mexican filmmaker Issa López (it premieres on Sunday), dispenses with the poetry — it is by and large a plain-spoken affair. But where Pizzolatto’s “True Detective” stories were essentially traditional noirs with a gloss of pop psychology and horror-movie sensationalism, López commits fully to the outré and the supernatural.
Persons: ”, Nic Pizzolatto, Raymond Chandler, Rod McKuen, Issa López, López, That’s Organizations: HBO, coy Locations: Mexican
☆ Denise Mina: What I Learned By Stepping Into Raymond Chandler’s Shoes - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Denise Mina | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Marlowe is, of course, the most famous creation of Raymond Chandler, perhaps the most famous of American crime novelists. On the one hand, there is his glorious writing, his blue-collar heroes and the occasional profound observations about the human experience. It takes a strong stomach to read a story in which a woman needs a slap to calm her down. Crime fiction was, and is, anti-feminist. Chandler may have been a misogynist, but he definitely lived in misogynist times, and his fiction reflects that.
Persons: ”, Philip Marlowe, Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, Reading Chandler, there’s, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Talley, Mary Wings, Val McDermid, Chandler, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Vladimir Lenin, that’s Locations: Angeles, Glasgow
☆ ChatGPT Secret Training Data: the Top 50 Books AI Bots Are Reading
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."
☆ ‘Alexis Smith: The American Way’ Review: Southern California Collage
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Peter Plagens | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
La Jolla , Calif.Alexis Smith is not quite a feminist artist, not quite a conceptualist, not quite an installation artist, not always an ironist, and in the beginning she wasn’t even Alexis Smith. In her art, however, Ms. Smith is at times all of those things. Collage—intimate and mural-sized—is her metier, and her sensibility is more literary than plastic. One could easily get the idea from the 50 works on view in “Alexis Smith: The American Way” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla that the artist has read most of the Great Books of the Western World and seen almost every movie and stage musical ever made. This is slyly accomplished by—to describe a typical Smith collage—a small pictorial souvenir from popular culture coupled with a few typewritten words from, for example, a Raymond Chandler L.A. detective novel.
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