Tag Archives: Jim Tully

Rediscovered: Tully Dies, The Ring Records

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Don

Just finished the new bio of Jim Tully last night — review and miscellaneous thoughts to follow. And even as I was punching my way toward the final bell, Brian Leno — resident Up and Down These Mean Streets expert on … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Red Tully and More Hobo Jungle Sapping History

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Don

How about Biography Month here in Up and Down These Mean Streets? I’ve got some bios I’ve been intending to mention piled up on a shelf behind me, and I’m a third of the way through the recent bio of Jim … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: Mrs. Parker and the Literary Circle

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Don

The LAVA Literary Salon that meets in Musso & Frank has a new meeting scheduled on Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald — sold out already! I missed their first meeting, on John Fante, but was in M&F only a couple … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: Jim Tully

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Don

Recent mentions of hitting Hollywood again, plus references to my 1984 book The Dark Barbarian, on Texas writer Robert E. Howard, brought Jim Tully back to mind — a road kid and beggar and circus roustabout who became one of the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Notes on Wetjen by Ed Price

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Don

Sometimes the prolific pulp writer E. Hoffmann Price would make a single notation in a book from his library, other times no marks at all. One time I visited him in his home in the hills above Redwood City just as he was … Continue reading →

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