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Golden Age Heroes on Old Time Radio!
By Thomas McNulty Golden Gazette News During the glorious golden age of pulps, dashing heroes and femmes fatales weren’t limited to the ever-popular pulp magazine market. They were in fact equally as...
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The Spirit of St. Louis
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic solo flight. He flew nonstop from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. Named in honor of...
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1920s—The Age of Wonderful Nonsense
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Known as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense, the 1920s were a turbulent time. Flappers and bathtub gin...
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“The Great Gatsby” in Pulp Fiction
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The Great Gatsby, the classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been adapted to film five times, from the now-lost 1926 version that Fitzgerald and his wife,...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News With pulp-fictionesque TV dramas like Boardwalk Empire sweeping ratings, and movies such as Lawless and Gangster Squad set to hit the silver screen, the...
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The Rise of the Superhero in Literature
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News An authentic American concept, superheroes were spawned during the era of the Great Depression. These were the world’s first supersoldiers, using their powers to...
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It’s Alive! The Birth of Science Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Most writers agree that there are seven major genres with hundreds of subgenres, but science fiction is probably the most eclectic. Fathered by the likes of Jules...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs—A World of Pulp Fiction Adventure
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News Many pulp writers made a living and had good reputations in their time. Fewer were influential outside of the pulps. And even fewer are remembered today. One of...
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Pulp Fiction and the Gold Rush!
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The Gold Rush of 1849 in California is one of the most famous historical events of the Old West—not surprising when you consider how much it changed the face of...
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Pulp Fiction Goes to Egypt
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The oldest living civilization in the world, Egypt in northeast Africa has been around as a continuous culture for five thousand years. It was the land of the...
View ArticleAir Shows in the Pulps
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News In 1909, a mere six years after the Wright Brothers first mastered powered flight over the windy sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the first air shows were...
View ArticleThe Silk Road: Pulp Writers’ Passport to Adventure
By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The Silk Road is the most famous in the world, and one of the most ancient. Dating back to shortly before the time of Christ, it was a group of trade routes that...
View ArticleFor Death and Glory! The Foundation of Fantasy Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News With J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Hobbit, prequel to The Lord of the Rings, just coming out in theaters, fantasy as a genre continues to entrance audiences. In...
View ArticleHere’s a Clue: The Origins of Mystery/Detective/Crime Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Of the seven main genres of fiction, mystery fiction includes any novel or short story in which a detective (either amateur or professional) investigates and solves a...
View ArticleAhoy There! The Launch of Action-Adventure Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Forbidding locales, a dangerous mission, death-defying stakes, high-octane chases: the action-adventure genre is all about exciting undertakings rife with physical...
View ArticleThe Rise of Romantic Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News A heroic knight, abiding by chivalry’s strict codes of honor and demeanor, off on a quest to fight and defeat monsters and giants, thereby winning the favor of a...
View ArticleThe Dark! The Dark! The History of Horror Fiction
By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Thrills, chills and the monster in the dark: horror fiction is intended to unsettle, scare or create an intense sensation of dread in the reader. Of the seven major...
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