Breakthrough: Ross Macdonald, Lew Archer and ‘The Doomsters’

Breakthrough: Ross Macdonald, Lew Archer and ‘The Doomsters’

There was a time, a time before touch screens and artificial intelligence, a time before all things considered became one thing considered, a time before passion became an ordinary word.  It was during this time that I wore a leather jacket and studied with Professor Jules Winfield at UCLA.  Winfield was teaching a class at Kinsey Hall he called “Miracles, Epiphanies and Other Human Phenomena.” Professor Winfield was something of a legend in Wes…