Pulp Magazines
While working at an advertising agency, he started writing his first novel, Retreat from Oblivion. After it was published by Dutton in 1939, Goodis moved to New York City, where he wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines, including Battle Birds, Daredevil Aces, Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Western Tales, sometimes churning out 10,000 words a day. His very first pulp story written using his own name was published in "Gangland Detective Stories" (November, 1939), titled "Mistress of the White Slave King." Over a five-and-a-half-year period, according to some sources, he produced five million words for the pulp magazines. While his output writing pulp stories far eclipses that of his predecessors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, unlike them, the vast majority of his pulp stories have never been reprinted.
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Famous quotes containing the words pulp and/or magazines:
“Tell me, how many hands have palpated the pulp that has grown so generously around your hard, bitter little soul?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)