Pulp Today w/ David Avallone
What is pulp fiction? Glad you asked! David Avallone -- son of prolific author Michael Avallone and a writer himself -- invites you on a tour through the liveliest and most popular storytelling… from the Trojan War to the 21st Century. Special guests include actor James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers), writer David F. Walker (The Life of Frederick Douglass, Luke Cage) and actor Mageina Tovah (Spider-man 2, The Magicians.)
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 74
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Episode 52: Avallone vs. Spillane
Groundbreaking author Ursula K. Le Guin examines the power of dreams and the danger of wishes coming true in her classic novel. The use of Who concert laser show effects in the PBS adaptation is, sad…
Mon 31 Jan 2022
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Sat 29 Jan 2022
Episode 51: Science Fiction as Prediction: H.G. Wells and The World Set Free
Science fiction writers often try to predict the future, with varying results. H. G. Wells does a terrifyingly good job in his mostly-forgotten 1914 novel THE WORLD SET FREE.
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Mon 24 Jan 2022
Episode 50: Avallone vs. Spillane
A reading from Michael Avallone’s THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT A DAME, featuring a missing Shakespeare play and a psychotic private detective who may or may not be Mike Hammer.
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Mon 17 Jan 2022
Episode 49: Strangers on a Train
Special guest Stephen Robinson, writer for Wonkette, AV Club and playwright, joins David to talk about Patricia Highsmith’s classic mystery, the Hitchcock film adaptation, and to nerd out on a wide v…
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Episode 48: VALIS, Philip K. Dick, and the Healing Sentence
A dive into autobiographical science fiction, from the master of broken realities... Philip K. Dick.
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Mon 03 Jan 2022
Episode 47: The Continental Op Dies Hard
Setting aside the weighty issue of “is Die Hard a Christmas story?” we ask the more interesting question, “is Dashiell Hammett’s The Gutting of Couffignal a Die Hard story?” Listen in, and hear the m…
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Episode 46: Martians and Colonialism
H.G. Wells wonders aloud what it would be like to be on the short end of the big stick, in the apocalyptic classic often imitated but never surpassed.
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Mon 06 Dec 2021
Episode 45: Mother Night... and Social Media
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel about how maybe it doesn’t matter who you are inside, if your outside is too convincing. There's a great movie adaptation by Keith Gordon. Listen to this, then go track …
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Episode 44: Robert Bloch and Psycho
You know the Hitchcock movie, you may even know the sequels, the cable series, or the Gus Van Sant weirdness... but have you read the original, by the great Robert Bloch? You should. Let’s talk about…
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Episode 43: Hector Navarro, Warlord of Mars
Nerdist’s own Hector Navarro (@Hectorisfunny) joins me to talk John Carter, Tars Tarkas, “planetary romance,” a pretty solid movie sabotaged by its studio… and eventually we get around to a reading f…
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Episode 42: Life, The Universe, and Everything
A special episode to commemorate reaching the cosmically significant Number 42: the brilliant and talented Susy Kane (LODGE 49, HOUSE OF ANUBIS) joins me to read THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY,…
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Episode 41: If On An Autumn Morning A Writer...
You’re listening to a podcast on Pendent audio. A show you’ve enjoyed before? Perhaps. Or perhaps you are a fan of Italo Calvino, summoned here by a Google search. You check the length. Fifteen and a…
Mon 01 Nov 2021
Episode 40: Galactic Patrol and the origins of Space Opera
So it’s 1978 and you’re a teen and you’ve seen STAR WARS 10 times and there’s no home video or streaming yet, and you’re hungry for more space opera. Where can you go to get it? You go back to the so…
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Episode 39: Damon Runyon, and the Art of Slang
Some thoughts about a particularly vivid flavor of American speech, as expressed and maybe partly invented by Damon Runyon, and how it still echoes today. Plus a few words about the joys of writing i…
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Episode 38: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Originally recorded on January 25th, 2020... after the inauguration of Joe Biden, after the insurrection, after the Fall of Trump. That particular American moment we were in got David thinking about …
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Episode 37: FAHRENHEIT 451, with Mageina Tovah
The talented and lovely Mageina Tovah joins David Avallone to talk about a book that meant a lot to both of them growing up: Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic FAHRENHEIT 451! You might remember her fr…
Mon 04 Oct 2021
Episode 36: Winners, Sore Losers, and GRANT SPEAKS
Originally recorded just after a certain orange goon lost and lost “bigly”... it seemed like a good time to pour a glass of whiskey, smoke a celebratory cigar, and read a little something from Ev Ehr…
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Episode 35: You Only Live Twice, Mr. Bond...
I'd been wanting to talk about the James Bond novels since I started this series, and the defeat of Trump, in November of 2020, made me choose the fall of a cartoonish supervillain as my first readin…
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Episode 34: Tales of the Frightened, Part Three!
DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD! Are you one of the Frightened? Originally “broadcast” last Halloween, the third and final episode of my little TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED mini-series, presents one of the more bats…
Mon 13 Sep 2021
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