Tag Archives: Jeff Shanks

Rediscovered: A Bit More on Unique Legacy

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Don

And how about another new Guest Blogger dipping his toes into the Mean Streets waters? Today we feature Kevin Cook with a brief review of the academic litcrit collection The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales, which originally ran in his zine … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Unique Legacy, Still Waiting on Godot. . .

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Don

How about a new Guest Blogger for These Mean Streets? You’ve encountered Tom Krabacher’s name here before, notably in my report on PulpFest 2015. Just yesterday I was dismissing the academic compilation The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales (yet another poorly-edited … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Academic Wankery” and the Rise of the Uninformed

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Don

Image above: Howardian academics confronted with a Deconstructionist Debacle — image itself, a Footnote to the Great Flivver War of 2015 (academics love their footnotes, and this pic precisely captures my view of academics and their apparatus). While of course I intend … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: “Pigeons” vs. Lovecraft

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Don

Let’s kick off LitCrit Month by flipping a grenade into the complacent multitudes of Lovecraft fans, milling about the base of his fane, mumbling inchoate incantations to Cthulhu and company. I’m guessing that most Lovecraft fans never read Brian Leno’s … Continue reading →

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