{"id":71867,"date":"2014-05-27T18:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=71867"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:26:21","slug":"some-pulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/some-pulp\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Pulp"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\/* <![CDATA[ *\/ portfolio_slideshow.slideshows[300] = {\"timeout\":\"4000\",\"autoplay\":\"false\",\"trans\":\"fade\",\"loop\":\"true\",\"speed\":\"400\",\"nowrap\":\"true\"}; \/* ]]> *\/<\/script><div id=\"slideshow-wrapper300\" class=\"slideshow-wrapper clearfix portfolio-slideshow-centered\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-nav300\" class=\"slideshow-nav\">\n\t<a class=\"pause\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Pause<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"play\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a class=\"restart\" style=\"display:none\" href=\"javascript: void(0);\">Play<\/a>\n\t<a 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1894, found a home for a lot of his fiction in <em>Black Mask<\/em>, one of America\u2019s great bygone pulp magazines. Raymond Chandler, Carroll John Daly, and other masters of detective fiction all placed their work in <em>Black Mask<\/em>, which first published Hammett in 1922, and which serialized <em>The Maltese Falcon <\/em>in 1929. The magazine had high-minded origins\u2014H. L. Mencken cofounded it in 1920 as a lucrative companion to his more literary (read: less profitable) journal, <em>The Smart Set<\/em>, which also published Hammett, though later he decided to slum it and began to appear solely in <em>Black Mask<\/em>. Mencken and his partner sold the pulpier magazine only eight issues into its run; I guess they thought they\u2019d made enough money on it by then. Tant pis\u2014<em>The Smart Set<\/em> (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Smart_set_1911_09.jpg\">A Magazine of Cleverness<\/a>\u201d) met its demise in 1930, when <em>Black Mask<\/em> had a circulation of 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>Alack, the forties saw a decline in fortune, as <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110709015311\/http:\/\/www.detnovel.com\/Black%20Mask.html\">a fan\u2019s history of <em>Black Mask<\/em> explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By 1940 circulation had dropped &#8230; and the owners decided to sell <em>Black Mask<\/em> to their competition, <em>Dime Detective.<\/em> A new editor tried to make the magazine tough again and brought in new writers, but the problem was no longer the magazine. The technology of entertainment was changing. Readers had taken up comic books and mass-market paperbacks during the Depression, and by 1940 radio was also taking away audience. These media were, variously, either cheaper or more durable or resalable or more immediate. Its days numbered, <em>Black Mask<\/em> staggered on, using lurid covers of sex and violence, featuring espionage stories during World War II and finally cutting back to fortnightly publication. The magazine\u2019s size was reduced, the price raised\u2014nothing helped. The last issue appeared in July 1951. After thirty-one years of publication, <em>Black Mask<\/em> folded: it had printed over 2,500 stories by some 640 authors and been the dominant magazine in hard-boiled fiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was <em>Black Mask<\/em>, particularly the aforementioned grotesqueries of its later years, that inspired Tarantino\u2019s <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em>, and the covers here offer images out of a Tarantino wet-dream: unabashedly titillating, chock full of lantern-jawed private dicks and glinting gunmetal and doe-eyed doll-faced dames who like to leave messages in lipstick (or blood). Serialized novels were called novelettes, not novellas (\u201cThe Flying Hearse: A Cellini Smith Novelette\u201d); headlines ran to all shades of yellow and purple. \u201cLeaving Killings to the Cops.\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s All Swing Together.\u201d \u201cThe \u2018Phantom Crook\u2019 Returns in \u2018Tommy Talks.\u2019\u201d \u201cAnd a Little Child Shall Bleed Them.\u201d \u201cAlcoholics Calamitous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hammett\u2019s frequent appearances in these pages might imply that he was just part of the hard-boiled schlock-peddling machine, and I suppose he was. But all you do have to do is read a few lines of dialogue from <em>The Maltese Falcon<\/em> to see why he outlasted his contemporaries\u2014there was no tough-as-nails before Sam Spade was tough-as-nails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dashiell Hammett, born today in 1894, found a home for a lot of his fiction in Black Mask, one of America\u2019s great bygone pulp magazines. 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