Pulp
spoonietee
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School me on pulp fiction. What are your favorites? Classics of the genre? Where should I start? I feel like this is something I could get into and it sounds like some of you's guys know your stuff. Thanks!
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the actual pulp magazines, like Black Mask and Dime Detective?
or paperback original authors like Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford?
or hardboiled detective writers like Raymond Chandler & Dashiell Hammett?
let's see.
detective fiction:
Chandler
Hammett
Wade Miller (the Max Thursday stories)
Harold Browne
Ross MacDonald
A.A. Fair (alias for Erle Stanley Gardner)
crime fiction/thrillers:
Thompson
Willeford
David Goodis
W.R. Burnett
Chester Himes
Cornell Woolrich
David Dodge
Harry Whittington
if you tell me what you are looking for, or something you have read that you liked, I can make more specific recommendations.
cosine on all the above. Thompson great fun but gets repetitive. love woolrich. would argue chandler is greatest american author of 20th including hemingway. don't forget james m. cain - mildred pierce, postman rings twice, and doubld indemnity.
In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the U.S.
in-fucking-credible
Ha! My first thought on seeing this thread was that we had finally reached that stage on the Strut that the only artists left for appreciation threads were of the brit pop variety. Always had major issues with the group despite both the band and Cocker obviously being intelligent and talented musicians. Something insultingly smug and overly knowing about them. I will say however that I have a soft spot for this one track. Great attempt at capturing those ever so special teenage moments. Shits all over the chin stroking stuff:
As far as authors go, Hammett is the mutts nuts.
anyway, this thread brought me good luck, because the day after it appeared I went by one of my once-rich but lately bone-dry spots for "pulp fiction" and they had just purchased a huge collection, all displayed on a special new bookcase at the front of the store. my heart skipped a beat! the pbo collector's version of walking into a record store and being told you are first to see the collection of soul 45's they just purchased:
Ha! I've been away from the interwebs a minute. A few developments, though. Just got back from the library, snagged "The Big Sleep", excited to get into it today. Also, it turns out there's a shop here in Ann Arbor called Aunt Agatha's that deals in "new and used fiction, detection, and true crime stories." Will be making a trip today and of course I'll post finds if I come home with anything which I assumed I will. Thanks everybody!