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From Pulp Fiction to Literary Gems

Join host Rick Outzen in this literary edition of “(We Don’t) Color On the Dog” as he sits down with David Earle, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities at UWF, for a fascinating deep dive into the world of pulp magazines.

Discover how these cheap, disposable working-class publications from the 1890s-1950s became the unlikely birthplace of modern American genres—from hard-boiled detective fiction to science fiction.

Earle reveals how authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler perfected the art of terse, snappy dialogue in magazines like Black Mask, creating the DNA for…

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