Archive for 'Pulp Fiction'

The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction & the New Pulp Movement

The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction & the New Pulp Movement

The influence and inspiration of the Golden Age of Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, where literary giants like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walter B. Gibson and L. Ron Hubbard headlined the popular pulp fiction magazines of the [...]

The Fantastic Pulp Fiction Art of Norman Saunders

The Fantastic Pulp Fiction Art of Norman Saunders

A major part of what made pulp fiction so fantastic was the cover art. The lurid colorful covers of square-jawed heroes rescuing damsels in various stages of distress appealed to the masses and helped launch the [...]

Prohibition and Its Influence on Pulp Fiction, The Mafia and Hollywood

Prohibition and Its Influence on Pulp Fiction, The Mafia and Hollywood

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News During the Roaring Twenties and lingering on into the 1930s and the Great Depression, America was a turbulent society, exploding with excitement, desperation and crime. True-life tragedies and the highest [...]

Celebrating a Pulp Fiction Renaissance

Celebrating a Pulp Fiction Renaissance

It was freedom, reckless and wonderful. It was the allure of faraway lands, the beckoning whisper of a beautiful woman, the thrill of a duel to the death. It was the pulps. And to thirty million [...]

Pulp Fiction and a Brief History of Aviation

Pulp Fiction and a Brief History of Aviation

In 1930s America you didn’t need a ride to the airport or a boarding pass to fly from one place to another. What you needed was courage and a lot of imagination. Flying was dangerous and unpredictable. Landing in [...]

THE IRON DUKE: Free in February on Kindle

THE IRON DUKE: Free in February on Kindle

The Iron Duke is performed by a talented cast including: R. F. Daley, Lori Jablons, Jim Meskimen, Richard Rocco and Michael Yurchak.  For the month of February, readers can get introduced to the Stories from the Golden [...]

Pulp Fiction: The Magic Carpet to Adventure

Pulp Fiction: The Magic Carpet to Adventure

THE SUPERHIGHWAY Do you know what Tahiti looks like? What color is the sand on the Cayman Islands’ beaches? Can you describe the Great Wall of China? Perhaps you can affirmatively answer those questions. But if [...]

What is Pulp Fiction?

What is Pulp Fiction?

From the steaming streets of Manhattan through Hollywood’s silver screens, pulp fiction brought the soul of America to the heart of America during its Golden Age. WHAT IS PULP FICTION? Pulp Fiction’s Roots and the Rise of American [...]