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...
Category - Pulps
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...
Updated: Sept. 8, 2017. It’s time once again for a roundup of PulpFest 2017 reports. As usual, I will update the listing as I learn about additional...
Continuing my “selling the pulps” series, this post turns our attention to postcards. The postcards featured below were mailed out by Street &...
Marvel’s Iron Fist showed up on Netflix earlier this month, and I’ve been slowly watching through the series. As with Netflix’s previous...
Last week’s post looked at ads for Street & Smith Publications‘ pulp magazines that appeared in its movie-fan magazine, Picture Play. Those ads...
We usually think of pulp magazines as selling themselves — that their garish, often lurid covers splashed across newsstands were all it took to propel...
It’s easy to think of the pulp magazines as solitary items today — 70, 80, 90 or more years after they were for sale on newsstands — and...
Science-fiction author Paul A. Carter died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Kingman, Ariz. He was 90. Carter’s earliest work of fiction, “The Last...
The pulps are more than just the stories and characters depicted on the covers and inside of the magazines. The pulps are the thousands of writers, artists...