I’ve been in the market for an e-reader for a while. My wife bought one of the original Amazon Kindles several years ago and loves it. I had my eye on the...
Category - Opinion
Ed Hulse, Barry Traylor and Walker Martin made some good points in their comments to my “Future of the pulps” entry a few weeks back. Certainly, there is...
I’ve seen the best pulp-based movie ever. And it will be hard — no, almost impossible — for Hollywood to top it. In fact, I’ve seen scores of great pulp movies...
A stack of pulp-related books have accumulated on the corner of my desk since last summer (before I took a hiatus on Yellowed Perils). A bunch of the books are...
A lot of the stories and novels I like to read are ephemeral. Literally. I’m afraid of spending too much time holding my pulp magazines for fear they...
A former sections editor of mine used to have a “happy drawer” in our department that was filled with candy. You could grab a piece whenever you needed a boost...
The latest issue of Blood ’n’ Thunder arrived in yesterday’s mail.
Over the past few years, I’ve been reading biographies of pulpsters when I find them. Two of my most recently read ones offer a contrast.
Lurid covers come to life on the highly saturated TV screen, thanks to the recently released DVD documentary, Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted...
I’m sad to report that The Avenger Archives is no more. David Kalb reports that he received a cease-and-desist e-mail from Conde Nast’s lawyers. His is the...