Not solely pulp but slick fiction as well. He got around. (He
has a story in Donald Wollheim's pioneering anthology POCKET
BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION, for example.)
Also, sounds like you need to read some Manly Wade Wellman,
if you haven't already, most particularly his John stories
(first collected in WHO FEARS THE DEVIL?). I've only recently
read of his encounter with a petty, boorish, and ultimately
cowardly William Faulkner (not one of WF's better moments,
I'm sure).
TM, who was too busy to take issue with you about Joyce Carol
Oates the other week.
-----Original Message----- From: Mario Taboada [mailto:
matrxtech@yahoo.com] This powerful declarative prose
reminds me not so much of Faulknerian Southern but of
mountain talk (if you've ever heard Ralph Stanley talk you'll
know what I'm talking about).
Stribling is our kind of guy. The Store is a great novel.
Stribling was as good as Erskine Caldwell but without so much
melodrama and anger. Now I am curious about his pulp
fiction.
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