#Noirvember is upon us, so you’re getting two reading lists for the price of one. Here is our Noirvember reading list we made a while back (it’s grown since we last talked about it so give it a look-see). And then there’s this list below. Which can be found (along […]
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Yeah, yeah, it’s been a minute. I know. Our last reading list post was in June, and with this being the last week of October we barely made it this month. Truth be told, we were recently interviewed by @slowheavymetalmusicplaying on a new app called Famera. It was a great […]
If you’re living in an area experiencing “April Showers” and find yourself indoors a lot, here’s some books to keep you company. If it’s beautiful out, these books can keep you company outside too. That’s the beauty of books, they’re versatile. Ride the Pink Horse — Dorothy B. Hughes Dorothy […]
We were going to start this last month, being January and all, but life got in the way. Anyway, we’re trying something new here at the Pulps, a monthly reading list. The first month went about as well as our “dry January” did, but hey, here’s February. Gunshine State — […]
Pulp fiction really came into its own in the 1920s. This was the ground floor for all the stories which were adapted into classic Film Noirs. The 1930s saw the invention of the mass market paperback novel, but the pulp magazines of the 1910s and 1920s helped pave the way […]
In the world of neo-pulp, there are few as prolific and successful as the partnership of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Together they’ve created such successful comics and graphic novels as Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill or be Killed. With Brubaker penning the story and Phillips illustrating, the Brubaker/Phillips […]
The best known group of works by James Ellroy, The LA Quartet covers the years 1946 to 1958 in Los Angeles and it’s about as noir as you can get. It’s bleak, brutal, and beautifully written. With this being the last week of Noirvember I figured it was worthwhile to […]
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) was largely an unknown writer during his lifetime. His work was primarily published in the horror pulp rags like Weird Tales and Astounding Stories and was never considered “literature.” He developed a cult-like following years after his death. Today people still write about his […]
They don’t make ’em like Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961) anymore. A veteran of both world wars AND a Pinkerton Agent, Sam wrote what he knew. And what he knew was far more interesting than your average person. A product of the D.M.V. (D.C., Maryland, Virginia NOT the Dept. […]
Today is the birthday of Robert B Parker (1932 – 2010) who was born on September 17, 1932 in Springfield Massachusetts. Springfield is also the Birthplace of Basketball, Indian Motorcycles, Dr. Seuss, the Springfield Armory, and the writer of this article’s father, Tony Pagourgis. Before becoming a published author, Parker […]