Raymond Chandler Is Not Noir: Get Over It
By The Contrarian
July 15, 2016Noir is the punk rock of the book world. It’s a niche genre that has been exploited to the point that the term it is meant to describe has been so watered down as to be unrecognizable and indistinguishable from the mainstream it rebels against. And, if Noir is punk rock, then Raymond Chandler is…