A literary magazine is printing a previously unpublished work by the novelist Raymond Chandler — and it’s not a hard-boiled detective story.
Strand Magazine announced that its latest issue will include a poem by Chandler written around 1955 that shows the “softer, sensitive side” of the writer known for his pulp fiction hits such as “The Big Sleep.”
“He wrote the poem after his wife had passed away and this poem also serves as a love letter to her,” Andrew Gulli, managing editor of Strand Magazine, told NPR in an email.
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