Andrew Nette

Six Lesser-Known Pulp Writers of the Revolution and Counterculture Era

By Andrew Nette

December 16, 2019

Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980, edited by myself and Iain McIntyre, is the first comprehensive account of the ways in which the changing politics and culture of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s were reflected in pulp, crime and popular fiction in the UK, United…

Wake In Fright (1971): Dusty and Thirsty in the Outback

By Andrew Nette

March 9, 2014

If the popularity of writers such as Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Woodrell and Frank Bill is anything to go by, rural noir is a big deal in the United States. While it may not be anywhere near as well-known, for my money, the 1961 novel Wake In Fright by Australian writer Kenneth Cook…

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