Comments on Pulp Serenade: Gold Medal Books: In Their Own Words

Cullen ... Thank goodness there's enough great...

2009-07-17T20:53:15.260-04:00

Cullen ... Thank goodness there's enough great old books out there that we can dedicate time to searching for them, buying and reading them. It's great fun. It seems like every week i learn about a new author or a book I never heard of till reading a review on your blog or elsewhere. All of this is possible because of the internet and people who have a love for writing and story telling and want to share it. Keep up the great work; it's appreciated.

Frank - your library must be crazy extensive. I...

2009-07-17T20:26:15.072-04:00

Frank - your library must be crazy extensive. I'm certainly envious - trying to improve my book collection all the time, though I figure it will be a life-long project of mine.

Chap ... It's interesting to compare some book...

2009-07-17T20:22:16.965-04:00

Chap ... It's interesting to compare some books and publishers from this period. This has been a lot of posts of late about Orrie Hitt and his "adult" novels, supposedly very risque, but in fact quite tame. At present I am reading a GM book from the same period, by Charles Runyon, Color Him Dead, which is way more explicit, as well as very well written. Labels! What do they really mean? Gotta think it's all about marketing.

"Taboos? We have none, really." That say...

2009-07-17T17:24:59.450-04:00

"Taboos? We have none, really." That says it all. What a pity that writers today are obliged to accommodate the timidity of publishers allegedly browbeaten by the PC brigade.

Amazing a print of 200,000. Never happen today.

2009-07-17T13:53:46.793-04:00

Amazing a print of 200,000. Never happen today.

I've always wondered why there isn't such ...

2009-07-17T13:03:54.077-04:00

I've always wondered why there isn't such a book already! I'm with y'all - I'd certainly read it. I still haven't even found a complete bibliography of all the Gold Medals. If anyone embarks upon such an adventure I'd love to be involved.

Iren ... sorta like the life and times of Gold Med...

2009-07-17T12:58:13.692-04:00

Iren ... sorta like the life and times of Gold Medal and its writers. I'd read it!

Very Cool. I wonder if there would be enough of th...

2009-07-17T12:35:12.441-04:00

Very Cool. I wonder if there would be enough of these kinds of articles out there to be the basis for a book on Gold Medal and it's writers.

That's a great post- well done for finding thi...

2009-07-17T10:27:00.414-04:00

That's a great post- well done for finding this.

Totally fascinating.

2009-07-17T10:19:09.476-04:00

Totally fascinating.

Fascinating, Cullen. Doing some quick math (alrig...

2009-07-17T10:12:54.139-04:00

Fascinating, Cullen. Doing some quick math (alright, i admit i used a calculator) a 200,000 printing would pay the writer $2000. That wasn't bad money back in 1950s. That would probably be close to $20,000 today. (I'm guessing on that conversion rate!)

Early in the article it mentioned Peter Rae. Surely that is a typo error and they meant Peter Rabe who wrote some great books.

Thanks for posting this.