Category Archives: Lit

Rediscovered: 100 Years Ago

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Don

Recently noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook mentioned one of the features he does for his zine in the amateur press association devoted to pulps: I probably told you about it before, but every PEAPS mailing I do a … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Does Continuity Matter?

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Don

For those who enjoy chewing the fat about books and writers, in email the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook and I recently got off on another little thread that might interest some of you: Kevin: Of course the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Excerpts of Nostalgic Book Talk

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Don

Kicking the can around in email with noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook, we hit a thread of wishing we’d been alive back when, getting new stories by favorite writers hot off the press. It began as Kevin was … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Unclaimed Remains of Charles Saunders

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Don

Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes pops along a news article — startling enough it provokes my jaded sensibilities. Turns out the Sword-and-Sorcery — later Sword-and-Soul — author Charles Saunders died at some undetermined point in May of 2020, but when his … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Tenderloin Terry Hits the Top Ten

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Don

Not the New York Times or Publishers Weekly year-end round-ups, but for the specialized market it was written for, perhaps even better — Terry Zobeck made the Top Ten for fave books of 2020 by James Reasoner. The Larry Block … Continue reading →

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Tour: Journal of the Plague Year

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Don

2020, without question, a great year for binge-watching — but taking a moment to think about it, I don’t believe I did any more bingeing than usual (which is to say I am a binge-master, the only trick is tracking … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Charles Saunders Publication History Moment

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Don

Very casually, I’ve begun to poke around looking for content for a LitCrit MegaPack or two, starting by going through Word doc files to see what I have available. Many of my essays pre-date Word doc’ing (and will require the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: DICK HARDBOILED

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Don

Hey. Turkey Day. Not quite Xmas. It starts later than Xmas. If you haven’t seen it before, some folk turned me on to “The Adventures of DICK HARDBOILED in Neo Noir Dark Noir City.” Some funny lines. Only a few … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Charles Saunders

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Don

You can tell that at the time Cheryl Cline wrote her article on Sword-and-Sorcery for Portable Storage 4 she was unaware of the death of Imaro creator Charles Saunders. Like most, I only got the news late in the year. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Further “Fungus” Fisher

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Don

Yet another Autograph Hound Super-Sunday! Jeez, what have I got lying around in all the stacks of stuff? Remember when Brian Leno provided a John Hancock for Philip M. Fisher Jr, probably best known today for his short story “Fungus … Continue reading →

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