Category Archives: 1910s

Howard Pease Among the Literary Ambulance Drivers of WW1

Posted on 13 March 2015 by Richard — Leave a reply

A list of ambulance drivers during World War One.

John Dos Passos

E. E. Cummings

W. Somerset Maugham

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Nordhoff

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp and Mystery

High Priest of California

by Charles Willeford

"It was one of those dance halls where men come to pick up something, and women come to be picked up. I was there because I was bored." Classic Pulp, and thus the meeting between Russell Haxby and Alyce Vitale who barley knows the rules...

Casino Royale

by Ian Fleming

Casino Royale (1953) Introduction The following review consists of my deconstruction of this novel into what I call The Elements of 007. I describe these elements in a linear, skeletal form in the James Bond discussion group. You ...

Matt Helm - The Wrecking Crew

by Donald Hamilton

The Wrecking Crew advances the formula with a fumble. Through the first pages/chapters, Helm is relatively unaffected (yeah, normal for the genre) over his wife's choice to divorce him. This is filled in towards the end, but Matt resists...

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