oh wow how neat! thank you for reminding me I need to watch it!!

Actually, no! But it’s been on my to-watch list for ages by now

it's really stunning and i think quite underseen. glad you watched!

This one (from 1967!) is also worth watching

UCLA Film & Television Archives made other amazing films available a while back, including this rather blunt interview with Jennifer Michaels, later the subject of Penelope Spheeris's excellent 1971 film I Don't Know. The highlight is the incredibly schmaltzy montage and song at the end

Possibly some relevant material in the edited collection Narrative Middles... also iirc the Claire Bishop argument about attention referred to by another poster is already sort of present in Nicholas Dames's The Physiology of the Novel, I think especially in the chapter on Thackeray

Imagine telling the story to someone else; what points would you have difficulty with (A: because of memory) or (B: because of difficulty in relating or grasping relevance)?

Are there any likeable characters?

Are you saying this because you really think so or because the author means for you to?

Some sample questions:

Anything in this book which is old-fashioned?

Were there any obvious narrative tricks or places Chandler cheated?

Could you draw a map of Marlowe's movements (if not, what would you have trouble placing)?

Is this a sexy book? a violent book? are the characters witty?

genuinely need her to write a full length prose work

Hell yeah! Congratulations!!