Sandra Scoppettone

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…

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Spying on Harriet the Spy

By Mitzi Morris

October 3, 2012

When I was in fourth grade the coolest kid I knew was Harriet the Spy, the sixth grade heroine, age 11, of the eponymous children’s book by Louise Fitzhugh, published in 1964. Harriet’s an obnoxious brat with OCD traits who takes notes on everyone and everything around her. She doesn’t just take notes, she adds…