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Pulp Nonfiction: A Guide to Studying Hardboiled Crime

By Jake Hinkson

May 11, 2014

You know you’re officially a mystery fanatic when you start reading books about books. Luckily, over the years many studies of hardboiled and noir crime fiction have been published to meet the needs of just these kind of fanatics. Here’s a short guide to some of the best. 1. “The Simple Art of Murder” by…

More Than Pretty Pictures: Tag Lines in Classic Pulp Novels

By Eric Beetner

April 25, 2013

Let’s face it: a book cover is a seduction. No one knew this better than the pulp fiction publishers of the 1940s and ’50s, their covers all gussied up with lurid colors, barely clad women, big black guns, and promises of what was between the covers. But what’s a seduction without a good pickup line?…