Episode 180 - Pulp

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about the fiction genre of Pulp! We talk about aliens, Mounties, sleuths, and vigilantes as discuss what counts as pulp and what doesn’t!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante by Richard Tooker
• The Aliens by Murray Leinster
• “All the Colors of the Rainbow” by Leigh Brackett
  • Republished in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. I edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
• Sally the Sleuth by Adolphe Barreaux - Forward by Tim Hanley
• Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties edited by Don Hutchison
• Planet Scumm - Issue 15: Major Arcana
  • The Battle of York by James Stoddard

Other Media We Mentioned

• Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io
• Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server
• Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps edited by Sheldon Jaffery
• McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon
• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023
• The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and ’70s Mexico
• Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io
• The Shadow (Wikipedia)
• Pulp collections available online:
  • The Pulp Magazines Project: “an archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazine from 1896-1946”
  • The Pulp Magazine Archive at Internet Archive
• Weird menace (Wikipedia)
• Episode 19: Weird Fiction (not “New Weird” as Matthew says)
• Sauron (comics) (Wikipedia)
• Betty Ross (Wikipedia)
• Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele
• Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz

15 Pulp Novels & Anthologies by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarría, translated by Carlos Lopez
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Four Bullets for Dillon by Derrick Ferguson
• The Green Lama: Scions by Adam Lance Garcia
• The Banks by Roxane Gay and Ming Doyle
• A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
• Blind Corners by Jemir Robert Johnson
• It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
• Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
• Once Upon a Time in Afrika by Balogun Ojetade
• One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
• Black Pulp II edited by Kimberly Richardson
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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