"Michael Robison" <
zspider@gte.net> wrote:
<< Richard Moore wrote:
> The only part that gives me pause is his last
point.
I have read
(and
> enjoyed) a fair amount of Max Brand and much of
it
predates Hemingway, Hammett and
> Chandler. I have not read as much of his
later
stories which would include
> those published under the Evan Evans name but I
have
trouble imagining Faust
> changing styles as a result of reading Hammett
and
the like and channeling that
> into stories published as by Evans. What I
have
read of late Brand does not
> seem all that different from the Brand of the
late
teens and early 1920s.
************ Gruber wrote about Max Brand in his PULP JUNGLE.
Max would sit down every morning for a couple hours and pound
out his daily quota. I'm thinking it was 16 pages. If I
recall, Max drank quite a bit, too. The amazing thing about a
lot of those pulp writers is that they could knock out
finished copy the first time.
>>
And Faust didn't revise, apparently -- he disdained his
popular pulp fiction, even though it supported his
extravagant lifestyle and helped introduce him to Hollywood
(first via his westerns, with even early examples being
picked up as vehicles for Tom Mix and other silent stars; and
later thanks to Dr. Kildare, which really built a fan base
for his work). So, he hammered out his 15 or more pages a day
and didn't look at it again. Instead, he pored sweat over
writing and revising up to two lines of poetry a day -- and
no one remembers him for that today.
For more about Frederick Faust/Max Brand, check out the
section devoted to Brand on my website, The Pulp Rack, at http://www.pulprack.com
Thanks!
- Duane Spurlock
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