I haven't read the book myself (which is a surprise even to
me!), but it's considered a bit unreliable when it comes to
other authors. Gruber was prejudiced against many and he may
exaggerate his own importance. I've read some of his crime
novels and Westerns and they've all been pretty good, but I
don't think he'd be remembered so much, if he hadn't written
PULP JUNGLE.
There are lots of interesting and entertaining pulp memoirs
by many writers, such as E. Hoffmann Price, Hugh Cave,
Richard Wormser, etc. I just heard that Western writer Bill
Gulick recently published his own. There's also a pretty
good, albeit shortish, memoir by another Westerneer, D.B.
Newton, in the story collection BORN TO THE BRAND. Newton is
rather hardboiled to me, so he's not off-topic. Check it
out.
As for the pulps and other mags, I'm just finishing up Mike
Ashley's second volume to his history of SF magazines, called
TRANSFORMATIONS. It's highly recommended, even though you
wouldn't be so much interested in science fiction. The first
volume is also very, very good.
And still about the pulps, if you want to know everything
there's really need to know about the hardboiled crime pulps,
do read THE DIME DETECTIVES, by Ron Goulart. With Server's
book I think that's the essential reading.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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