Tag Archives: PulpFest

Hammett: Some Corrections If You Please

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Don

Awhile back I did a link to a review of The Big Book of the Continental Op by Jesse Sublett. I’m sure there are numerous reviews of Big Book of the Op I haven’t linked to yet, and never will, … Continue reading →

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Tour: The Kermit Sheets Copy

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Don

Grizzled eBay gunhawk Brian Leno told me that a signed copy of an old tour book currently is on the block — Buy It Now for $39.50. First printing of the second edition from 1982. Same printing as the copy I … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Leigh Brackett at 100

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Don

Leigh Brackett would have been 26 the day Pearl Harbor came under attack, and today is birthday 100. My pal Morgan Holmes mentioned the anniversary to me the other day, saying various people were doing an array of blog posts … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Leno Cracks Big Book of Bronze

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Don

Our occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno, hot off the release of his first book — Lovecraft’s Southern Vacation, slugging it out to keep a toehold in the Top Ten and Twenty of the Amazon Horror Litcrit Bestseller list — continues … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: When Time Proves You Right

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Don

Needless to say, you get some soul-satisfaction out of being proven right — and I’m more fortunate than most in that I have been messing around the Robert E. Howard fan arena for decades, with the opportunity to be proven … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Thumbing the Hammers in the Gun-Dummy Game

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Don

Hey, can you tell that I am deep into Will Murray’s history of the pulp western, Wordslingers? A history of a genre, an encyclopedia of mini-biographies of a thousand and one fictioneers, and a debate between the proponents of the … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Out of the Past

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Don

Do you remember my description in the recent PulpFest report about how a dealer showed me a copy of my 1982 tour book  in gray wraps which he had priced at $15? I was going to put it back for … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Biography Month Once More on These Mean Streets

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Don

What ho, it is Biography Month once again on Up and Down These Mean Streets — last time I did one was July 2012. The new bio of Jim Tully was a big excuse that time, and no doubt the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Fugitive Library of Young Scott, and Haefele’s Proto-Panel

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Don

You know those stories you read, about how some guy has gone off to war in Afghanistan or someplace and comes back to find out that his soon-to-be-ex-wife has sold his dog? Or all the stories about soldiers who put … Continue reading →

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Hammett: And Walker Martin

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Don

Even rambling on at some length, I couldn’t cover every detail or drop every name in my PulpFest report — though I consider some of that action taken care of by links to other posts, which namecheck people I skip … Continue reading →

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