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:
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–62)
“The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the way of remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)