DAVID GOODIS is the quintessential hard-boiled writer, someone for whom noir was not just an aesthetic but a way of life. He was born in Philadelphia in 1917, graduated from Temple University with ...

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Mugs, cons, dames. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Noir from the '40s and '50s. This is the stuff from which classic dark dreams are made. David Goodis was prolific. He died young (age 49 in 1967) but ...

Humphrey Bogart's face is swathed in bandages, but his psychological wounds run much deeper. Bogart is on the lam in San Francisco in Delmer Daves' "Dark Passage," a typical scenario in the world of ...

If David Goodis (1917-1967) is not a household name, this may be due, in part, to the kind of households he wrote about. His characters tend to live on the wrong side of the tracks, socialize on skid ...

One of the great legacies of adman Jerry Goodis' Canadian advertising agency — Goodis, Goldberg, Soren — was the fact so many of its campaigns lasted so long. Such a rarity in the world of advertising ...

If, like me, you discovered David Goodis through the 1980s Black Lizard reprints of his novels, Philippe Garnier’s “Goodis: A Life in Black and White” (Black Pool Productions: 216 pp., $25 paper) has ...