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Category Archives: Chester Himes
Pulp Friday: interview with Iain Mcintyre, author, Sticking it to the Man!
Today’s Pulp Friday is a fascinating interview with Melbourne-based social historian Iain McIntyre, author of a new book, Sticking it to the Man! Pop, Protest and Black Fiction of the Counterculture, 1964-75. Sticking it to the Man! is a roller coaster … Continue reading
Posted in Australian pulp fiction, Chester Himes, Gold Star Publications, New English Library, Ozsploitation, Pulp, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, Robert Stone, Scripts Publications, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged 1964-75, Blaxsploitation pulp, Carl Ruhen, Chester Himes, Counter cultural pulp fiction, Dave Wallis, Dog Soldiers, Dykes on Bikes, Gil Scot-Heron, Give Me Money, Gold Star Publications, Harlan Ellison, Horwitz Publications, Iain McIntyre, Joe Haldeman, John Brunner, John Love, Michael Moorcock, Only Lovers Left Alive, Operation Hang ten, Patrick Morgan, Protest and Black Fiction of the Counterculture, Robert Stone, Scripts Publications, Sex A-Go-Go, Sticking it to the Man: Pop, The Crucifiers, The Final Programme, The Forever War, Ursula K Le Guin, William Bloom
Pulp Friday: A Rage in Harlem
Today’s Pulp Friday offering is A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes. Himes is a difficult author to categorise. He’s wrote a number of excellent, fast paced, darkly humorous crime novels, of which the so-called “Harlem Domestic” series featuring the … Continue reading
