Re: RARA-AVIS: Willeford

Don Cannon (dcannon1@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 00:22:14 -0500 (CDT) It was probably $.05 pulp. But that doesn't mean that it should be
automatically denegrated. There was a certin amount of pulp that has
been re/discovered and will be known, 100 years from now.. In fact I
believe that the nature of the pulps helped create some of this great
work. There are a number of authors who wrote terrific books that
probably wouldn't have been possible if thy weren't published as pulps,
because pulps weren't edited as much. The authors got to write what
they wanted, not what an editor thought would sell. I'd certinly also
include Chester Himes in this category.

Don Cannon

Ned Fleming Wrote:

>I don't give a shit about the genre, but I get the drift from reading
>Willeford he would be cackling like a hen at you for thinking him a
>highfalutin "major" author. It's pulp, man. It's $4.50 pulp, but it's
>still pulp. Won't no one remember Willeford 100 years from now.
>

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