Davis (of the Operator 5 series) where Davis writes of a woman editor working for Wyn named Helen Wismer. Robert Kenneth Jones includes a statement by Frederick C. Looking through my copy of The Shudder Pulps I ran across a reference to A. (Hey, they’ve Bobbled Kerouac already! I’ll have to check to see how many lit Bobbles have been done - might be a good safety valve for my Collecting Impulse - or it might lead to an epic invasion of the Bobbleheads.)Īnd if you’re in Columbus specifically for PulpFest, really, what is more Ur Pulp than Thurber’s 1939 short story “The Secret Lives of Walter Mitty”? If the original pulp readers poured through those pages in search of adventure or romance, thrills beyond the grind of the day-to-day - and I think they did - then Thurber summed it up nicely.įurthermore, when he got back to his homebase in North Dakota, Brian sent a note to report: Had to go, and we went. If you have the same jones for lit sites and you get to Columbus, don’t miss it - in addition to T-shirts and mugs they sell Thurber Bobblehead dolls. As I’ve said before, I’ll track down any literary residence for a look - and who doesn’t like Thurber? When he was checking out the web to see what attractions we might want to see on the side during PulpFest, Brian Leno spotted a James Thurber house open as a museum in Columbus, Ohio.
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