‘Rally Round the Fag’ one of ten vintage gay pulp novels starring the popular character “Jackie Holmes” from ‘The Man from C.A.M.P.’ series. Artwork by the great Robert Bonfils,1967. Gay pulp novels have been around since the 1930s when the sale of paperback books proliferated. Historically, lesbian pulp was much more popular than novels featuring the exploits of gay men—and that is, of course, because the lesbian pulp was widely purchased by straight dudes. The popularity of the novels continued to rise during 1940s though, as noted in the book Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe edited by pulp historian Steve Berman, the very first true “gay pulp” novel was published in 1952 by author George Viereck. Viereck, a former propaganda tool of the Nazis during WWII authored the 195 page Men into Beasts that used homosexual prison culture as a part of its storyline—something Viereck had observed first hand while he was locked up. The 50s was not a good time for the gay community, much in part to the gay-hating U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy who in addition to his suspicions that commies, pinkos and reds had managed to weasel their...
"Losing My Religion" re-imagines the classic R.E.M. song from 1991 as a 1950s pulp novel about a tormented priest. This is a fine art giclee print on acid free, 330gsm, 100% cotton rag paper with a bright smooth finish. Watermark does not appear on finished print. Prints come in four sizes: 8.5x11, 11x17, 18x24 and 24x36. Please be aware that all prints feature a white border to help with framing your item. Depending on which size print you order, this border may be wider on the top and bottom than on the sides. I recommended that you wait until you have your print in hand before you shop for a frame.
Someone at Simplebooklet has decided to present the miserable life of today' librarians in 1950's pulp fiction covers, and it's hilarious. I mean look below.
Flavorwire has found on Reddit some insanely cool book cover designs. See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=”lists” ] Imagine famous classic novels like Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, re…
Someone at Simplebooklet has decided to present the miserable life of today' librarians in 1950's pulp fiction covers, and it's hilarious. I mean look below.
I defy you not to be intrigued by these amazing titles. They were created by Joystiq, as a tongue-in-cheek jibe at a failed video game clone of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
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With their expressive type and bawdy illustrations, romance novels turned book covers into potent advertisements.
1930s Nancy Drew As sophisticated as she appeared on the cover of the first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, Nancy was just a girl of 16. Throughout the 1930s, she remained 16 but the stories presented a seemingly mature girl for her age having very bold and dangerous adventures. 1930s Nancy Drew is not your Nancy Drew of today and she certainly wasn't the same sleuth in the 1950s or 1960s. She was bolder, more daring, worked by herself more often, rarely relied on adults or men to get her out of scrapes, didn't trust the police to do the job right, didn't always respect her elders, and drove like a fiend. She was a rough and tumble girl on the one hand, but yet still refined enough to gracefully dance her way though the ballroom at her special friend Ned Nickerson's college fraternity dances, charming all the boys and gaining admiring glances from the girls. Sometimes she was quick to judge and sometimes she took awhile to figure things out. She wasn't always perfect and she chided herself frequently. But at the end of the day, she always got her man and sometimes even a female villain or two. It wasn't until the latter part of the 1930s when Nancy began to be more toned down and by the 1950s was more of a Stepford clone of her early 1930s self. If you haven't read any of the original versions from the 1930s, I highly recommend them. They are very well written--a very sophisticated style full of lots of suspense and even some melodrama with great cliffhangers. They truly did lose a lot of the spice when they were cut down and revised in that the stories lost characterization and good dialogue and descriptive elements that helped move the stories along. Where can you buy the original versions? An original version has 25 chapters by the way--a key rule to remember. They aren't to be found in your local chain bookstores--those are the revised versions. To find the 25 chapter originals, you can get Applewood reprints at some bookstores and online. Or, you can for similar prices or even less, find the originals to read at sites like eBay or Bonanza. Because these are so collectible, it can be hard to find them in your local used book stores or antique malls. Sometimes they're marked up too high as well, so you can often get better deals even with shipping at sites like eBay. Jenn:)
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Graham Greene: Orient express. Bantam 1955. Cover art: George Gross.
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I defy you not to be intrigued by these amazing titles. They were created by Joystiq, as a tongue-in-cheek jibe at a failed video game clone of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
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Rejected by publishers, "The Price of Salt" was a dime-store paperback that became a groundbreaking work of lesbian culture.
As word of mouth about a book spreads, it begins to spark with a special kind of electricity. April 11, 2024 A book that earns the title of “cult classic” is one that combines two seemingly contradictory qualities: It has a passionate following of people who swear it’s the best thing they’ve ever read, but also, outside this intense fan base, it’s largely unknown. As word of mouth about such a book spreads, and the title’s partisans become evangelists, it begins to spark with a distinct kind of
