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 13: Pal Joey, John O’Hara, and Some Fashion Tips
“If it’s going to happen, it can happen before nine o’clock.” A little funnier and less dark than the usual Pulp, and this one premiered in magazines with nice paper. Never wear a hat indoors. (Sorry…
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Episode 12: Tarzan, and Other “True Stories”
Did you know Tarzan started in the pulp magazines? Of course he did. I talk about that, and the long tradition of presenting fantastic stories as coming from "true" sources...
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Mon 05 Apr 2021
Episode 11: Red Harvest, and Men With No Name
Dashiell Hammett drafts the blueprint for so many 20th Century pop culture heroes with RED HARVEST: a holy text of pulp fiction. Often “unofficially” adapted to film, often imitated, but never done r…
Mon 29 Mar 2021
Episode 10: Ed Noon and Dead Game
Today, it's back to basics and back to Dad: DEAD GAME, the third Ed Noon novel by Michael Avallone. As I like to say, this is the real stuff, the actual vintage poured from the original bottles, with…
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Episode 9: A Pulp Fiction Mystery Novel
All sorts of things are Pulp. We'll get deeper into that as we go along. Here's something which is now considered high literature, but first appeared in a cheap paperback with a lurid cover. The "voi…
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Episode 8: Ross Macdonald is the Holy Ghost
I read Ross Macdonald's account of the beginnings of his writing career, complete with a special shout-out from Ross to a certain colleague of his who is near and dear to my heart.
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Mon 08 Mar 2021
Episode 7: James Urbaniak and Fante’s Ask The Dust
Now with guest stars! My pal James Urbaniak (star of stage and screen, writer, bon vivant) joins me to talk about, and read a funny chapter from, John Fante's Depression Era Hollywood classic, ASK TH…
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Episode 6: Chandler, The High Window, and Love Poetry
I wrap up my Chandler trilogy with a little something sweet from THE HIGH WINDOW. Next time... more authors, more drinking, and now with Special Guests!
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Episode 5: Chandler, Carmen Sternwood, and the Big Sleep
I talk about that time Phil Marlowe met Carmen Sternwood -- 1939’s version of Kim Kardashian -- and reacted how you might expect. Bonus shoutout to Aimee Mann.
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Episode 4: Raymond Chandler and the Simple Art of Murder
"Down those Mean Streets a man must go who is not himself mean.” What makes a great private eye? I drink and read a little bit from Raymond Chandler's seminal essay, "The Simple Art of Murder."
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Episode 3: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Let's talk about literature and poverty and sex and desperation… and why you shouldn’t cast forty years olds in parts written for kids in their twenties. Pour yourself a drink and give a listen.
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Episode 2: The Maltese Falcon/The Flitcraft Story
Dashiell Hammett invented existentialism in 1930, and I'm here to tell you all about it, in a little parable he called "The Flitcraft Story."
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Episode 1: The Tall Dolores
I kick off our literary adventures with a little day-drinking, and reading the first pages of my father Michael's classic 1953 private eye novel THE TALL DOLORES.
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Fri 19 Feb 2021
Pulp Today preview trailer
What is pulp fiction? Glad you asked! Writer, filmmaker and raconteur David Avallone -- son of prolific author Michael Avallone and a writer himself -- invites you on a tour through the liveliest and…
Fri 19 Feb 2021
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