Echoing my March blog The Swimmer's Ripples, here's an intriguing piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Geoff Nicholson. Mentions of Chandler, Ballard and Ellis amongst others (personally I'd skip the Crying of Lot 49) and a worthy mention of Wilder's Sunset Boulevard: where Joe Gillis (William Holden above) comes to a sticky end (below) shot three times and face down in the swimming pool.
"The poor dope - he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool."
Read it here.
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