If you want to know the truth, just about every novel written — on some level — is a roman à clef. You may think you’re writing noir fiction, or something picaresque, but in the end everything you type is informed by your perception of the world. In the broadest…
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Grieving Jean Harlow at the funeral of Paul Bern, her husband, 1932. Things take a turn for the sad in chapter 3, You Only Live Once…
Evelyn Waugh based “Brideshead Revisited” on family friends, the Lygons, children of Lord Beauchamp — a man who was driven into exile from his stately home (and country) by his Catholic wife for a series of dalliances with his butler, valet, etc. — but his children stayed forever true. We’re…
* HAPPY HOLLYWOOD, BEGUILERS! AND A MERRY NEW YEAR! Compliments of the Season, from Pippa of London & Vickie of Los Angeles! Look for Chapter 2 (the slightly saucy one) on New Year’s Eve… .
London based actor Pippa Rathborne and I would like to present our Christmas gift, a chapter a week of “It’s in His Kiss” a Hollywood Noir — perfect to curl up in bed with. Look for us same time, same day, until the last page is turned. Today it’s the…