Pulp Today w/ David Avallone

Pulp Today w/ David Avallone

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Pulp Today w/ David Avallone episodes

  • 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, sadly, not addressed.
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    0 min
  • 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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    16 min
  • 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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    13 min
  • 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 variety of topics.
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    0 min
  • 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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    0 min
  • 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 most hardboiled final line in all of pulp fiction.
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  • 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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  • 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 that down, too.
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  • 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 why...
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    0 min

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