Steph Cha, author of 'Your House Will Pay,' explains how Raymond Chandler's 'The Big Sleep,' her neighbor on the Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf, changed her life.
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Because of course I tried to copy him. He wrote with such irresistible excess and panache. He’d load up on high-flying similes and florid descriptions — of being “as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets,” of plants “with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.” Then he’d hit you with a line of perfect weight and clarity — “He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn’t owe too much money.” Or one of my favorites: “Me, I was part of the nastiness now.
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