IV: More Prep Material

[Keith]

http://tinyurl.com/nhtq4e

"In his brilliant new book, "A Bright and Guilty Place," Richard  
Rayner has given us, finally and definitively, the nonfiction  
equivalent of the Raymond Chandler classics that fell like hammer  
blows in the middle of last century: "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Long  
Goodbye," "The Big Sleep." Chandler turned fact, the criminal  
underworld of Depression-era Los Angeles, into fiction, and now  
Rayner, by a strange Didion-like alchemy, has turned fiction back  
into fact. Not to say he has dug up the story behind the story, as a  
reporter might profile the real white whale, but that he has run the  
world of Chandler through the machine a second time, the result being  
utterly truthful, fantastic and new."