Ep 19 Holloway House and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction. Special Guest: Gary Phillips
I’ve been working on this podcast for years now. Since I first saw the lurid cover of Iceberg Slim’s Pimp in the “Black Fiction” section of a bookstore, I have studied, read, and obsessed with the publisher Holloway House. And, of course, my friend Gary Phillips is the only person I wanted to discuss this
Raymond Chandler Paperback Covers Gallery
Episode 3 – Chandler Paperback Covers Tom Adam’s Raymond Chandler covers for Ballantine Books. Scans of the covers are from the excellent website Catspaw Dynamics. Other interesting Chandler covers discussed in the podcast
Paperback Cover of the Week: The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Kathe Koja is a writer’s writer. Her first novel, Cipher, won the Bram Stoker Award and earned high praise from fellow writers and critics. Locus magazine called the novel, “Disturbing, unique, and unforgettable”. And, indeed, that’s just what it is. No one writes horror like Kathe Koja. She takes familiar horror tropes and turns them on
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Ep 17- Bantam, Louis L’amour and the Paperback Western
Ian Ballantine was a young graduate student in 1939. He wrote a thesis on the economics of the paperback industry in the late 1930s that brought him to the attention of several paperback publishers. He opened the American branch of Penguin Books (a UK company) in 1939. Ian was primarily responsible for re-selling Penguins in the