Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jan Wolkers's Turkish Delight

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I finished yesterday on a train a Dutch novel, Turks fruit (1969) by Jan Wolkers. I don't think the book has ever been published in Eng...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Naked Came the Stranger

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In the on-going escapade of reading erotic novels for a forth-coming book, I recently finished Naked Came the Stranger by "Penelope Ash...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

The book on forgotten writers out

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My newest book is out : 11 essays on forgotten Finnish writers. It's already available at the Helsinki Book Fair to which I'll be a...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Holocaust 2000

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I saw a quite rare Italian horror film last Monday on the Finnish Film Archive's series: Holocaust 2000 by Alberto Di Martino . The Fin...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

A pissed-off author

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I reviewed a new Finnish crime novel by a first-time author recently. I didn't like the book a bit. It was purported to be funny and har...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Chester Himes's Pinktoes

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As I've mentioned couple times before, I'm doing a book on classics of erotic literature for a big publisher. I've quite recentl...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Facebook and CIA

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I'm on Facebook , as - it seems - everyone else is. One of those rare friends who's not there just sent me this link , telling all a...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

My sneaker collection

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I mentioned a while back that I've developed a fascination for old sneakers and other sports shoes. I put some on sale on Huuto.net (the...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Frank Castle's Sowers of the Doom

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Here's a book that has been somewhat puzzling to bibliographers, henceforth me. It's not known to have appeared in English at all, ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

I Am Legend in Finnish!

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I heard some good news during the Turku Book Fair that was held the last weekend: Richard Matheson's vampire/zombie classic, I Am Legend...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Another piece of ephemera: Murrang

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Here's another weirdo from the university remainder shelf: the Estonian little magazine called Murrang. I have no idea what it means, bu...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

The 1000th post: H. A. DeRosso

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This is the thousandth post on Pulpetti. At first I thought I should do a long post and ruminate on what I've accomplished ("Oh my...
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Lending libraries in Germany

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Jürgen from Hamburg sent this to an earlier post and I thought it should pay to be published properly: Thanks, Juri, for your inspiring blog...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Oh man

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(Seems like I've used the same subject line before...) I've earlier griped about the editing process and how I hate and despise it. ...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Another piece of ephemera

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Another freebie find from the university library remainder shelf. This isn't actually ephemera - it's a real magazine, but it seems...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Harry Etelä book out

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The collection of Finnish pulp writer and lyricist Harry Etelä's horror stories is out. The Secret Chamber of Horrors/Kauhujen salakamm...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Denny Lien's review of a British hardboiled novel

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SF expert and librarian Denny Lien posted this review on the FictionMags e-mail list and I asked his permission to publish it for a wider au...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Robert Martin

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A good and lengthy article on Robert Martin, a nearly forgotten PI writer from the fifties. I've read only two stories by Martin and bot...

Books read: Charlie Huston, Arthur Maling, Emerson Dodge (almost)

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Some capsule reviews of some books I've read recently, after completing the book on forgotten writers: Charlie Huston : Already Dead . O...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Another one ready to go

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Just finished the book on forgotten writers. There are one or two minor things I'll have to check still, but I consider the book now rea...