Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995):

Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels

Anthology by Raymond Chandler.

Edited by Frank MacShane.

Published 1995.

ISBN-10: 1883011078

ISBN-13: 978-1883011079

Contents:

Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting. Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note on the texts. Notes.

Description:

In Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing.

Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s greatest mystery writer.

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

On this day in music history - Music by Ry Cooder, by Ry Cooder (1995):

Music by Ry Cooder

Album by Ry Cooder,

released July 11, 1995.

Track list:

Paris, Texas; Theme From Southern Comfort; Theme From Alamo Bay; Across The Borderline; Highway 23; Bomber Bash; Greenhouse; Nice Bike; I Like Your Eyes; Main Theme; See You In Hell, Blind Boy; Feelin’ Bad Blues; Swamp Walk; Angola; Viola Lee Blues; The Long Riders; Archie’s Funeral (Hold To God’s Unchanging Hand); Jesse James; King Of The Street; Sunny’s Tune; No Quiero; Cruising With Rafe; Klan Meeting; I Can’t Walk This Time/The Prestige; East St. Louis; Goose and Lucky; Goyakla Is Coming; Canoes Upstream; Cancion Mixteca; Maria; Bound For Canaan (Sieber and Davis); Bound For Canaan (The 6th Calvary); Train To Florida; Houston In Two Seconds.

On this day in music history - These Days, by Bon Jovi (1995):

These Days

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 27, 1995.

Credits:

Hey God; Something for the Pain; This Ain’t a Love Song; These Days; Lie to Me; Damned; My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms; (It’s Hard) Letting You Go; Hearts Breaking Even; Something to Believe in; If That’s What It Takes; Diamond Ring.

On this day in movie history - Apollo 13 (1995):

Apollo 13

directed by Ron Howard,

written by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert,

based on the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger,

released June 22, 1995.

Music by James Horner.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Emily Ann Lloyd, Miko Hughes, Max Elliott Slade, Jean Speegle Howard, Tracy Reiner, David Andrews, Michele Little, Chris Ellis, Joe Spano, Xander Berkeley.

On this day in music history: Big City Blues, by Sue Foley (1995):

Big City Blues

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 15, 1995.

Track list:

Big City Blues; Howlin’ For My Darlin’; To Be Alone With You; One Hundred Dollar Bill; Ain’t Gonna Worry No More; This Time; As Long As I Have You; Highway Bound; If You Gotta Go; My Baby’s Sweeter; Girl’s Night Out.

On this day in movie history - American Cinema (1995–1996):

American Cinema

13-episode documentary series that ran from June 7, 1995 – August 22, 1996.

Episode titles: The Hollywood Style; The Studio System; The Star; The Western; Romantic Comedy; The Combat Film; Film Noir; Film in the Television Age; The Film School Generation; The Edge of Hollywood; Film Language; Writing and Thinking about Film; Classic Hollywood Style Today.

On this day in music history: Takin' a Stand, by Deborah Coleman (1995):

Takin’ a Stand

Album by Deborah Coleman,
released June 1, 1995.

Track list:

Evil Gal’s Daughter; Missin’ You; Don’t Talk About Love; Takin’ A Stand; I Believe; Moanin’ The Blues; I Cry; What Should I Do; Can’t Leave The Blues; Them Changes; Changes Revisited.

Recommended reading - Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995):

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

Edited by Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian.

Published by Oxford University Press.

Published 1995.

First Edition.

ISBN-10: 0195084993

ISBN-13: 978-0195084993

Description:

Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1930s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett’s 1925 tour de force “The Scorched Face,” to Ed Gorman’s 1992 “The Long Silence After,” Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Containing many notable rarities, Hard-Boiled celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American Literature and film, but how we see our heroes and ourselves.

On this day in movie history - Dead Man (1995):

Dead Man

directed and written by Jim Jarmusch,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 27, 1995.
Music by Neil Young.

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Mili Avital, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Gabriel Byrne, Jared Harris, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Mark Bringelson, John North, Peter Schrum, Mike Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michelle Thrush, Gibby Haynes, Richard Boes, George Duckworth, Thomas Bettles, Alfred Molina, Daniel Chas Stacy, Todd Pfeiffer, Leonard Bowechop, Cecil Cheeka, Michael McCarty, Steve Buscemi, John C. Carlucci.

On this day in movie history - Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995):

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

directed by Joyce Chopra,

written by Derek Marlowe, Dennis Turner and Les Carter,

inspired by the autobiography The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan,

was released in the United States on May 8, 1995.
Music by Patrick Williams.

Cast:

Elizabeth Montgomery, Yaphet Kotto, Audra Lindley, Joe Flanigan, Jenifer Lewis, Richard Lineback, Matthew Posey, Saundra Santiago, Liz Sheridan, Geno Silva, David Spielberg, Lewis Van Bergen, Raymond Serra, Eddie Barth, Alley Mills, Dean Stockwell, Heidi Mark, Tracy Grant, Castulo Guerra, Thomas Mills, David Jean Thomas, Patrick Massett, Evelyn Bakerges, Gary Kasper, Mike Robelo, Casey Stengel, Gorja Max, Brian Michael Tracy.

On this day in movie history - Anne Frank Remembered (1995):

Anne Frank Remembered

directed and written by Jon Blair,

based on the diary of Anne Frank,

was released in the United States on May 5, 1995.
Music by Carl Davis.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh.

Cast:

Isa Baschwitz, Mary Bos, Kenneth Branagh, Janny Brandes-Brilslijper, Glenn Close, Rose De Liema, Sal De Liema, Buddy Elias, Bloeme Evers, Alice Frank, Anne Frank, Helene Frank, Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Robert Frank, Miep Gies, Kitty Gokkel-Egyedi, Hanneli Goslar, Abraham Holländer, Charlotte Kaletta, Juultje Ketellapper, Nelson Mandela, Frieda Menco, Laureen Nussbaum, Peter Pepper, Werner Peter Pfeffer, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Joely Richardson, Rosa Stern, Rie Swillens, Rachel Van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Henk van Beersekamp, Martha van den Berg, Lucie van Dijk, Jacqueline van Maarsen, Elisabeth van Wijk-Voskuijl, Hans Wijnberg, Edith Frank, Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Fritz Pfeffer, Auguste van Pels, Herman van Pels, Peter van Pels.

On this day in movie history - The Underneath (1995):

The Underneath

directed by Steven Soderbergh,

written by Sam Lowry and Daniel Fuchs,

based on the novel Criss Cross by Don Tracy,

was released in the United States on April 28, 1995.
Music by Cliff Martinez.

Cast:

Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese, Joe Don Baker, Paul Dooley, Shelley Duvall, Elisabeth Shue, Anjanette Comer, Dennis Hill, Harry Goaz, Mark Feltch, Jules Sharp, Kenneth D. Harris, Cliff Haby, Tonie Perensky, Randall Brady, Richard Linklater, Helen Cates, Kevin Crutchfield, Brad Leland, John Martin, C.K. McFarland, Rick Perkins, Paul Wright, David Jensen, Jordy Hultberg, Steve Shearer, Fred Ellis, Joe Chrest, David L. Carter, Cowboy Mouth (band), Mike Enright, Mark Hanson, Matthew Hurley, Mike Malone, Christopher K. Philippo, Ryan Wickerham.