“Pulp” is a medium. It is a pulpwood magazine. It is not a style of writing. Not a genre of fiction. Not one end of a spectrum of literature. Pulp is not...
Category - Pulps
There’s that certain delight when your interests coincide with someone else’s. I knew a bit about this particular connection before, but it was...
While reading through Thirty-Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship (Haffner Press, 2011) recently, this quote by the late author/professor himself...
National Public Radio gave a nod to the fiction of the pulp magazines during Monday’s Three Books… segment on “Morning Edition.”...
For some, George Pal‘s 1975 Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze may hold a few fond memories of seeing the pulp hero on the silver screen for the first time...
It’s a good thing this story from the New York Times Sunday Magazine (dated March 26, 1911) didn’t pan out, or where would the pulps be? No...
It’s early summer. Just a few months ago, the U.S. was pulled into World War II. But for now, things really aren’t that much different than last...
We all know how the pulp magazines figure into the history of science fiction, right? Well, maybe not everyone. While science fiction didn’t start out in...
I’d always wondered what sort of guidance the pulp publishers provided to prospective fictioneers back in the day. Then one day, I noticed on eBay a...
Twenty-five years ago Sept. 30, Doc Savage returned to the airwaves for 13 weeks for the first time since the 1930s — and then he was gone again. I remember...