He talks about popular literary genres, like penny newspapers and dime novels, which were being published in mass quantities. He worries about people no longer thinking for themselves and uncritically accepting all this cheap popular literature and the trivial details of the news. So Thoreau is of...
s making its way into the fabric of society.And he extends this critique to other inventions of the day, like, uh, the penny press, this very fast, steam-driven press.He talks about popular literary genres, like penny newspapers and dime novels, which were being published in mass ...
I have long been a fan of the multi-talentedBarbra Streisandwho was the first performer to be awarded an EGOT (an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). She broke my heart playingKatie Moroskyin The Way We Were (written abouthere) and I am in awe of her powerful singing voice. With Barbra...
Paper Town’s is funny and intelligent. So in that regard it is a much better novel than a lot of the YA novels out there. Unfortunately, it lacks a deeper value. It lacks characters who grow into better people, which is kind of what you want in a book for young people. The novel...
He talks about popular literary genres, like penny newspapers and dime novels, which were being published in mass quantities. He worries about people no longer thinking for themselves and uncritically accepting all this cheap, popular literature… and the trivial details of the news. So, Thoreau ...
The pulps, as pulp fiction was also called, descended from an earlier type of cheap magazine popular in the 19th century: penny dreadfuls and dime novels. The wordpulpin the designation refers to the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. The covers, usually of better ...
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Just the other night I was at a networking function and someone was asking what I do and they were somewhat intrigued by my process and we dug deeper into my story. Towards the end of the conversation I said“what it boils down to is I’m a hustler, I hustle and make money any way...
Beyond our programming, thePulpFestdealers’ room will feature tens of thousands of pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, digests, genre books, original art, first edition hardcovers, series books, reference books, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, dime novels and story papers, Big Little...
What were some of the ripple effects of Pomeroy’s crimes? The Pomeroy case got swept up in the late 19th-century moral panic about the dire effects of dime novels, which became an important historical context for his crimes. Hundreds of Americans believed that Pomeroy’s dangerous reading hab...