Isn’t it a wonderful time to be a pulp fan? That thought popped into my mind a few days ago when I picked up my mail: a flyer and a magazine. The flyer...
Category - Opinion
I was withholding any judgement regarding The Shadow reboot coming in the new book by James Patterson and Brian Sitts, which is due for release July 13. But...
It’s funny how my reading choices are more a train of thought than anything else. Take Clifford D. Simak. I mentioned him last week. As I was finishing...
I just finished reading Red Harvest. It’s the first novel by legendary pulp fictioneer Dashiell Hammett, though it was first published as a four-part...
When I saw that actor Rex Reason had died last month, the news brought back fond memories of watching This Island Earth as a teenager in the ’70s. Back...
Back in the early spring, I had the great fortune of meeting Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the granddaughter of Maj. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson at a nearby...
I’ve titled this post “PulpFest 2014 wrap-up.” But I’m sure this won’t be the last post mentioning PulpFest 2014. A week ago...
As I’ve mentioned before I first discovered the stories from the pulps — and the pulps themselves — during junior high. For the longest time, there were...
Earlier this year, Steven Brower and Jim Simon published “Astounding, Mysterious, Weird & True, Vol. 1: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists,” a...
Writer/game designer Chuck Wendig has written “25 things to know about sexism & misogyny in writing & publishing” over at his blog...