UPDATED: Matt Moring of Steeger Books posted on Facebook this morning that Will Murray died Aug. 25, 2026. Will was 73. I’m in shock. Will had been a staple of pulpdom since at least the early 1970s. His was one of the first names I saw among...
In its August issue, The Atlantic ran “The End of Reading Is Here,” by Rose Horowitch. It argued that Americans process more words than any generation before us — texts...
PulpFest 2026 was a landmark. The convention drew 487 attendees — about 350 preregistrations and the rest walk-ups. That’s a record for PulpFest and its...
It’s Saturday, the last full day of PulpFest 2026. Yesterday was full of shopping in the dealers’ room, as well as eight presentations related to pulp magazines...
Yesterday was early-bird shopping in the dealers’ room; today and tomorrow, the dealers’ room is open to all PulpFest members. PulpFest 2026’s programming got full steam...
Today’s the first full day of PulpFest 2026. I will be posting photos from PulpFest to ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed throughout the day, so check back if...
The cars are loaded, and Jeff Shanks and I on the road to PulpFest 2026 this morning. It’s a bit of a drive from Tallahassee. we’ll be arriving in Mars, Penn., on...
This year marks a number of anniversaries: 130 years since The Argosy became the first pulp magazine; 100 years since the first science-fiction pulp, Amazing Stories...
A new episode of our Pulp Tales podcast dropped earlier, and this one is different from the others. Unlike the 133 prior episodes, which were recorded at PulpFest and...
Websites (and blogs) are here one day, and gone the next. As a result, I’ve been letting link rot* catch up to me the past few years. (*You know, dead links to long...