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  • Naked Came the Stranger

    Naked Came the Stranger

    May 20th, 2013 | Literary Hoaxes | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Have you heard of this novel? It was published in the summer of 1969 and ostensibly written by one Penelope Ashe. By October 13th of that same year, Naked Came the Stranger had already sold 90,000 copies, becoming a bestseller. By November of that same year, when sales of the book only continued to increase, [...]

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  • Philip K Dick

    Philip K Dick

    May 11th, 2013 | Writers | journalpulp | No Comments

    He was one strange cat. I don’t always love his literature, but I love his individuality, his originality, his inexhaustible inventiveness, his arrant hatred of authoritarianism, his mad genius — Philip Kindred Dick (nom-de-guerres Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland), philosophical novelist who bridged the science-fictional and the historical, drug-user, drug-abuser, paranoiac, self-described “acosmic panentheist,” twin [...]

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  • Five Reasons I’ll Keep Reading Your Story

    Five Reasons I’ll Keep Reading Your Story

    April 25th, 2013 | Writing | journalpulp | 3 Comments

    There are many reasons — many more than five — that I’ll keep reading your story. But there are also at least as many reasons I won’t. (For example: He had nothing in the way of a like God-concept, and at that point maybe even less than nothing in terms of interest in the whole [...]

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  • Literary Pulp

    Literary Pulp

    April 18th, 2013 | Writers | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Truman Streckfus Persons was Truman Capote’s real name. The title Finnegans Wake contains no apostrophe in the word Finnegans. Thus Finnegans is a plural and Wake is a verb. Issac Newtons’s father was illiterate. Walt Whitman’s mother was illiterate. Roald Dahl was an anti-semite. Djuna Barnes had no formal education at all. Edmund Wilson once [...]

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