I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Blaze the Trail, Snoopy, by Charles M. Schulz. This paperback contains strips selected from the Peanuts collection And a Woodstock in a Birch Tree. Though there are plenty that feature both Snoopy and his bird pal, there are also quite …
Weekly Reader — July 13 – 19, 2025
I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Space Cowboys, ed. by Kortnee Bryant. This recent (2023) anthology is the first of several from small publisher Raconteur Press aiming to capture the appeal of the American West in a science-fictional setting. As with any such anthology, not all …
Weekly Reader — June 29 – July 5, 2025
I finished four books during this week, as well as two pulp magazine issues. Books Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber. The first of Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series in chronological story order, this volume brings together origin stories for each of the pair as well as an account of the meeting that leads …
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Weekly Reader — June 22 – 28, 2025
I finished two books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Redrawn by Request: The Great Cartoons of J. R. Williams, by J. R. Williams. I first encountered the comic art of J. R. Williams in a number of reprint volumes put out by Lee Valley, the Canadian tool, hardware, and …
Pulp Centenary: Weird Tales, January 1924
Last year, I kicked off an effort to increase my reading of old pulp magazines, with a particular focus on those issues celebrating their centenary (i.e., issues from 1923). I started the focused project with Volume 1, Issue 1 of Weird Tales, as that famed magazine began publication in early 1923, and all issues from …
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Wednesday Pulp: Adventure, March 20, 1923
The March 20, 1923, issue has the expected assortment of long and short fiction, including two serial parts, filled out with a few short bits and the famed letters column, “The Camp-Fire.” The principal contents are as follows, with my comments. Novelettes “Bad Men Make Good Pickings,” by Frederick J. Jackson. A former Texas Ranger …
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Weekly Reader — March 19 – 25, 2023
I finished four books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Hammer of Thor, by Carter Brown. Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler probes a disappearance and a jewel robbery, though soon the case expands to include embezzlement and murder. Interlocking alibis of the chief suspects set Wheeler up for a courtroom …
Weekly Reader — March 12 – 18, 2023
I finished two books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books The Interlopers, by Matt Helm. Matt Helm takes the place of a murdered courier so that another agency can identify all the people making up the spy network for which the dead man worked, but Helm has an assignment of …
Wednesday Pulp: Adventure, March 10, 1923
One of the best and most widely read of the pulps was Adventure, which started in 1910. The magazine’s content was aptly described by its title, and the reader can expect plenty of action. The March 10, 1923, issue has the expected assortment of long and short fiction, including one serial part, filled out with …
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Weekly Reader — March 5 – 11, 2023
I finished four books during this week, as well as two pulp magazine issues. Books Wednesday’s Wrath, by Don Pendleton. Mack Bolan reaches the third day in his final week-long sweep against the resurgence of the Mafia, but this time he is diverted from his planned target to tackle something much bigger in scope, with …