Being Cool

<h4>William Marling commutes between the hot spots of Cleveland, OH, where he is an English professor at Case Western, and Tartu, Estonia, where his wife is a gender studies professor. He is best known for his work on the detective novel and on the film novel, but&nbsp;his latest study is&nbsp;Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s (Oxford, 2016).</h4>

William Marling

In the Flow: On Charles J. Rzepka’s “Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

David Madden and Kristopher Mecholsky James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker Scarecrow Press, 2011. 240 pp.

James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker

Pure Cain

William Marling commutes between the hot spots of Cleveland, OH, where he is an English professor at Case Western, and Tartu, Estonia, where his wife is a gender studies professor. He is best known for his work on the detective novel and on the film novel, but&nbsp;his latest study is&nbsp;Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s (Oxford, 2016).

William Marling

Articles

In the Flow: On Charles J. Rzepka’s “Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard”

Pure Cain