{"id":4439,"date":"2014-06-01T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2016-06-22T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:11:20","slug":"pulp-nostalgia-our-new-series-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?p=4439","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Nostalgia: Our New Series for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
We’ve entered a season of retro pulp nostalgia here at Crimeculture<\/em>. Our three new series feature\u00a0crime writers, reviewers, critics and publishers. If you’d like to take part, please drop us a line<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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\"iwakeupscreaming_thumb\"My Misspent Youth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A series of short reminiscences from crime writers based around a memento from their childhood – a favourite novel, photograph, poster, toy, baseball card and so on – that is connected to their writing life. \u00a0Our featured writers will be talking about the memories associated with their memento, about how they first came to be a writer and about their current projects.<\/p>\n

Ayo Onatade\u00a0talks about how\u00a0her youthful\u00a0fling with\u00a0The Mysterious Affair at Styles<\/em>\u00a0propelled her towards a life of crime.<\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Stella on a 1960 mob movie he became enamoured with and that would serve as an epiphany much later in life.<\/a><\/p>\n

Patti Abbott’s true confessions about her misspent adolescence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lynn Kostoff’s lyrical micro-memoir\u00a0moves from memories of the treehouse his father built him in ’62 to his writing life\u00a0in the present.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"alldetective_thumb\"<\/a>The Best Pulp Covers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In this series, we’ll feature contributors’ favourite crime novel covers and their explanation of why it’s their favourite.\u00a0If you would like to contribute a cover, please send<\/a> us the name (and an image, if available) of your favourite pulp cover along with 150 words or so describing what it is you love about it.<\/p>\n

Bill Crider talks about the cover of A Night For Screaming<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Simple. Stark. Effective”: Kirk Lake on the covers of the 1970s Coronet paperbacks of Richard Stark novels<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bad Girls<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Crimeculture contributors discuss their favourite bad girls, femmes fatales, female villains and noir heroines drawn from the annals of crime fiction, film, comics, graphic novels and true crime… If you are interested in contributing, send<\/a> us the name (and an image, if available) of your favourite bad girl along with 300 words or so about her.<\/p>\n

Adele Wearing tells us why ‘Bad Girls Go Everywhere’ in this witty reflection on femmes fatales<\/em>…<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul D. Brazill tells us about his favourite bad lieutenant,\u00a0Detective Constable Rachel Bailey of Scott & Bailey<\/em>…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve entered a season of retro pulp nostalgia here at Crimeculture. Our three new series feature\u00a0crime writers, reviewers, critics and<\/p>\n

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