Hard Case Crime Reinvents Pulp: Crime novels are still a staple of many readers’ libraries to this day, but they really saw their heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s when the paperback pulp took off with names like Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of Perry Mason) and Ross MacDonald, to name a few. The language was different than previous spy or detective novels – it was grittier, hardboiled and raw, full of dames and guns, and heavy with metaphor around every dark corner.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Hard Case Crime Reinvents Pulp
Hard Case Crime Reinvents Pulp: Crime novels are still a staple of many readers’ libraries to this day, but they really saw their heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s when the paperback pulp took off with names like Mickey Spillane, Jim Thompson, Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of Perry Mason) and Ross MacDonald, to name a few. The language was different than previous spy or detective novels – it was grittier, hardboiled and raw, full of dames and guns, and heavy with metaphor around every dark corner.
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Grr.
I knew you'd feel that way.
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