The Pulp Archivist

A new season brings a new edition of adventure magazine   Cirsova , complete with unknown stars, feats of heroism, and quick-paced twists wo...

The Cirsova Fall 2020 Special has arrived, just in time for Halloween, with a new bundle of strange yet thrilling adventures, daring suspen...

The original purpose of this style series was to weigh in on an off-hand comment elsewhere about using Shakespeare and the King James Bible ...

I n his 2001 "A Reader's Manifesto", B. R. Meyers takes five of his contemporary writers to task over how stylish affectations...

In response to yesterday's post, The Frisky Pagan takes the received wisdom on Hemingway out to the woodshed: Now, I don’t think this i...

This long series on style was kicked off by the growing discontentment within some parts of the PulpRev over the current style of invisible ...

And, of course, no digression into matters of style is complete without some negative examples: The Planetary Defense Commander describes...

I'm not the only one talking about style these days in our little corner of the pulp world. Style is a hot-button conversation right no...

As the ongoing conversation on prose style develops, many writers have been turning to the old advice of reading poetry. However, poetry has...

Style, again. This time, rhetorical devices, including Hemingway's simple style: Parataxis is the natural way of speaking English. It...

Style, again. As mentioned earlier, English has parallel vocabularies, based on the origin of the root words , such as the Germanic ...

Yep, back to style. Little things make a mighty stir in little towns, which is why that Kingsford folk talked all that spring and summer a...

Fourth in a series on style: As mentioned earlier, language has an effect on music and thus poetry. In the previous post, we listened to t...

More groundwork for the musicality of style. It comes as no surprise that the language that built its lyrical poetry on the da dum heartbe...

Here is a second video laying groundwork for a discussion of style. Another example of stylistic shift over time affecting pronunciation a...

Rather than get swept up in the recent personality clashes in the PulpRev, I'd rather focus on an idea somewhat tangential to that discu...

Saint Valentinus of Terni was a priest, a healer, and a hieromartyr. As a priest, Saint Valentine offered aid and succor to Christians in...

This past weekend, the Geek Gab podcast hosted Benjamin Cheah to talk about the short fiction revolution heating up on  Steemit , a new blog...

In an Empire beset by internal rebellion and ferocious yaomo , the elite Shenwujun stand ready to defend human civilization. Among the She...

( This article was first published in 1940's Writer's Yearbook.) Wave Those Tags by Lester Dent This, again, is my persona...