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Smiling Politely
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Stuck in the Middle With You?

I'm a Chandler fan and The Long Goodbye ranks among my favorite books of all time. However, like most authors in genre literature, I feel both Hammett and Chandler are vastly undervalued.

Dickens
…was not paid by the word—that's a total urban legend. The books were published serially and he was paid for each installment (see: http://dickens.ucsc.edu/faq….