Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub StreetA master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, Khlit the Cossack, the "wolf of the steppes. |
Contents
1 Id Write a Mile | 53 |
2 King of the Photoplay And I Write a Joke | 67 |
3 Art for the Artless | 81 |
4 For Whom the Bellboy Toils | 97 |
5 Darl and Heart | 109 |
6 Ad Astra Per Aspera Add Aspirin | 117 |
7 A Novel and What Didnt Come of It | 131 |
8 General Grant Slept Here | 145 |
11 Tumbleweed in Arizona | 185 |
12 Pilgrim in Santa Fe | 201 |
13 A Pulp Writers Problems | 211 |
Life after the Pulps | 223 |
Afterword | 253 |
Acknowledgments | 257 |
Notes | 259 |
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Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street Paul Sylvester Powers No preview available - 2007 |
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