Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The best in 2008

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Everyone has been posting their lists of 2008 , so here's another one, maybe a bit eclectic and not everything on it is new or even from...

Broadway Laughs and Pete Wyma

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Broadway Laughs (see below) was a humour magazine, with jokes, fillers and occasional short-short stories. The publisher was Crestwood, ope...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Michael Zuroy's Holmes parody

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Michael Zuroy is one of those short story writers who worked primarily in the fifties, sixties and seventies and never (at least it seems so...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Dave Zeltserman's Small Crimes

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My holiday reading included the latest from Dave Zeltserman (of the Fast Lane fame), Small Crimes . It was just perfect for the Christmas s...

Eartha Kitt gone, too

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In case someone didn't notice, singer Eartha Kitt died recently. Ted White has written this almost ten years ago, but it still works as ...
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Edd Cartier dead

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Just read that pulp illustrator Edd Cartier died during the holidays.

A Jim Thompson short film

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A student film based on a Jim Thompson short story "Forever After" has caused some controversy over at the Rara-Avis e-mail list. ...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Happy Yuletide!

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Just wanted to say Merry Xmas to each and everyone! My daughter is finally with us and we're going to spend the Christmas together - if ...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

A review on my Western anthology

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Here's a recent review from Kirjavinkit on my two-author Western anthology, Töitä arkkunikkarille .

The first Chandler in Finnish

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Was Raymond Chandler available for the Finnish audience in the late 1940's when the book of my previous post was published? Yes and no. ...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

When were pulps first mentioned in Finland?

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I just bought this book from 1949 for 50 cents. It's a small paperback originally meant for Finnish students of English language. I beli...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

"I want the gams"

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A piece of Australian pulp fiction, a digest-sized paperback of 98 pages from 1962. Max Strong was a series character by Australian hack cal...
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Ross Thomas's Hollywood

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There's been some talk about crime writer Ross Thomas and his connections to films on the Rara-Avis e-mail list that focuses on hardboil...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Pulp Press

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Allan Guthrie warned me about a coming small press publisher, called Pulp Press that will specialize on books about 20,000 words long, publi...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Audio pulp

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I've noted two comments on listenable pulp fiction on some e-mail lists I'm on, so I thought about posting about those here. Sorry f...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

Finally it's Yuri time!

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Some of you may remember that I was having a birthday party on May. As a commemmoration, I played live some songs I recorded on a C-cassette...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

L. Patrick Greene and James B. Hendryx

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Here's another posting from pulp fan and SF/fantasy writer Gerald W. Page that he originally wrote on the PulpMags e-mail list. It'...

Axel Brand is Richard Wheeler

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Just in case this is going to get caught in the Bookgasm comments only, I'll notch this up: in a comment to the review of Axel Brand...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Short story by minister of foreign affairs

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I scanned and posted a short story from 1939 by the Finnish minister of foreign affairs, Ahti Karjalainen, to another blog here . You might ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Jukka's cover for Hard Case Crime found a user

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Some months ago I wrote about my friend Jukka Murtosaari's attempt to break through in the US and send cover illustrations to Hard Case ...