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David Goodis
She took a final drag at the cigarette, flipped it away, and said, I don’t get this line of talk. It’s way over my head. Maybe you’re waiting for some…
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Jay A Gertzman
Pulp According to David Goodis starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish they were the protagonist, and yet feel relief that they…
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Herb and Jean Hervey fight all the time. It makes him crazy, but still Herb can't get Jean out of his system. Jean's in love with Paul, Wilda's husband. All…
Paranoia and criminal greed, by the writer who turned the crime novel into bitter poetry.
From the author of Shoot the Piano Player–a mesmerizing foray into the territory where cop and criminal meet, and sometimes change places. When a crooked cop is kicked off the…
Pulp fiction. Usually when these words are uttered today, people immediately think of the Quentin Tarantino movie, which, my God, is already twenty years old. To my recollection, though, the…
They say that a man needs a woman to go to hell with. Cassidy had two. One was Mildred, the wife who kept him chained with ties of fear and…
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Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people…
Three noir classics, the stories of hard-luck losers looking for their last chance at redemption- unlikely gin-joint heroes of the shadowlands.
SOMEBODY'S DONE FOR
Calvin Jander is just about done for when his boat capsizes and he's forced to tread water, hoping for a sight of land. When he does find…
David Goodis,Robert Leslie Bellem
Today many of the old pulp crime writers have achieved success to one degree or other. Sadly, like so many artists, they had to die before anyone took their work…
David Tait
Originally published in 1964 this book made available for the first time David Tait’s writings on the Konkomba with whom he lived and worked for 5 years. Including some previously…
Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives…
Dunbar’s Number, the limit on the size of both social groups and personal social networks, has reached iconic status in both the worlds of academia and business, its design underpinning…
