INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #15: "...I don't know what I just saw..." with Jason Bailey

Ol’ Raymond Chandler once wrote the following about the kind of hero who shows up in detective fiction:

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”

“The best man in his world and a good enough man for any world,” huh? Gee, that sounds a little like a buddy of ours out in Gordita Beach, has an office now, it’s like a day job and everything. Not quite a do-gooder, but somebody who does good…

About the Guest - Jason Bailey

Jason Bailey is film critic and editor-at-large for Flavorwire and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Playlist. A graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, he is the author of four books and is currently writing his fifth, Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It, for Abrams Books. His byline has appeared at Vulture, Vice, The Atlantic, Slate, Indiewire, Gothamist, Rolling Stone, Uproxx, Pajiba, The Dissolve, Salon, Hyperallergic, and The Village Voice, among others; he also appeared in the CNN documentary miniseries The Movies. He lives in New York with his wife Rebekah and their two daughters.