It’s widely accepted that Jennings Stockton Cox is the man who invented the Daiquiri in the Cuban town of, well, Daiquirií in 1898. But it was the bartender at the El Floridita, Constantino Ribalaigua Vert who crafted the drink for Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper and of course Ernest […]
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Donald E Westlake (1933-2008) is your favorite writer’s favorite writer. The man wrote over 100 fiction books and almost all of them are pure pulp. I can’t recommend his books enough, if you’re into hardboiled fiction, pick one up. This is a guy who counts Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Stephen […]
If you follow our Instagram page you’ve probably seen some of the Gil Elvgren reference pictures next to the completed work we put up time to time. For the longest time I’ve been curious about the unnamed models who’s faces adorn the pulp paperbacks and vintage calendars we still look […]
A while back we put up an article announcing our super eclectic American Pulps playlist on Spotify. Well it’s got two followers and I’m one of them so apparently you guys don’t care to much about our music. That’s cool, but we put together some other playlists and we might […]
You can’t deny the influence Mario Puzo’s The Godfather had on future creators who in turn became our influences here at American Pulps. I read The Godfather when I was in college and I loved it. But it wasn’t until much later that I found out the 1969 novel was […]
When people ask us what kind of stuff we write, we like to show them the painting above by Mort Künstler. We love everything about this right down to the bookshelf nightstand. I mean, OK, this guy’s obviously going through a rough patch in his life but at least he […]
Today we’re celebrating not only the 243rd anniversary of declaring our independence from the crown, it’s American Pulps first birthday. That’s right, one year ago today we changed our name from Shit Show Pulps to American Pulps. To celebrate both our nation and film, I’m going to talk about a […]
The Victorian Era Murder Mystery or Murder by Gaslight genre has its roots in the pulp rags of the Gilded Age when Penny Dreadfuls were all the rage. It was of course, during this time that Jack the Ripper preyed on the women of Whitechapel and the wealth disparity was […]
There’s something about confidence men and women that interest me. I think it’s the fact that I want to learn as much about the subject as possible so I don’t get screwed over by a real life conman. Whenever my family would go to New York I wanted to buy […]
We’ve got another American Pulps Spotlight where we take a person from the American Pulps community and interview them. We have so many talented people in our community and we want to give props where props are due. This week it’s Martin Ellison a pulpy pen and ink artist, illustrator […]