Charles replied to my question:
"Pulps in the day looked as new and fresh as the latest copy
of People magazine does to us -- worse paper, sure, but not
afflicted with decades of rot and decay."
Speaking of which, I was in a Borders yesterday and saw a
display of Doc Savage and The Shadow. I didn't have time to
look very hard (was on my way to see You KIll Me, a nice low
key dark comedy about a hit man entering AA), but they looked
like (glossy) reproductions of the old pulp magazines. I did
notice that Maxwell Grant's name was on The Shadow.
"I can't say whether our books would have gotten the
attention they have if the audience hadn't been primed by
Tarantino (although an entire decade passed between the
release of "Pulp Fiction" and the publication of our first
titles), but I can say the books would have looked and read
the way they do regardless..."
And for that I very much thank you. Love our series. The only
thing I don't like is discovering a new old writer and not
being able to easily find his other books. I feel like miker
in his early days here, only allowed to read one book by an
author.
By the way, the reason I stopped in that Borders was to pick
up your Songs of Innocence, which I'll probably start next
week, after finishing Seamus Smyth's Quinn and re-reading
Sallis's Long-Legged Fly, which I picked up to dip into but
found myself reimmersed, what a great book, what a great
series.
Mark
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