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Showing posts with label Pulp novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pulp novels. Show all posts
18 November 2024

There's a New Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

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Whenever I'm asked to talk about Ricochet Books, I make a point of mentioning Al Palmer's  Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street . The tit...
20 May 2024

A Poet's Pulp Novel

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The Winter of Time Raymond Holmes [Raymond Souster] Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 160 pages Anyone looking for a good story is sure to b...
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26 October 2023

Whispering City: Horace Brown's Second Encore

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Arriving in bookstores as I write, the eighteenth Ricochet Books title.  Whispering City is based on the Quebec City film noir of the same ...
12 November 2022

Murray and the Argonauts

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Arizona Argonauts H Bedford-Jones New York: Doubleday, 1923 120 pages Note: Arizona Argonauts is a novella infused with racial epithets. Re...
19 September 2022

Martha Ostenso's Forgotten Masterpiece?

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And the Town Talked Martha Ostenso Toronto: News Stand Library, 1949 159 pages The town is Bloomhill; the talk is of Elsbeth Payson. A few d...
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17 August 2022

Dope. Danger. One Doll.

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Lost House Frances Shelley Wees Winnipeg: Harlequin, 1949 192 pages Frances Shelley Wees runs hot and cold with me. I liked The Keys of My P...
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09 September 2021

Talking about Brian Moore's Pulp Fiction

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My conversation with Joanna Braniff about Brian Moore's early pulp novels – part of last month's Lonely Passions: Brian Moore Centen...
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16 August 2021

The Brian Moore Centenary Festival (and Me)

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This coming Thursday, August 19th, marks the start of  Lonely Passions: The Brian Moore Centenary Festival . A seven-day celebration organiz...
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11 June 2021

Love is a Long Shot on the Nose

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The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...
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