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...your typical novelist. He had the burly look of a longshoreman; his face was meaty, like his prose style. And Mickey - that's a name to put in a cartoon, not on august hard covers. He also slipped a Mickey to the image of the serious fiction writer, showing a brisk contempt for the elevated anguish of creating literature. In just five years, between 1947 and 1952, he served up seven novels: I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; Vengeance Is Mine!; One Lonely Night; The Big Kill; Kiss Me, Deadly; and the non-Hammer story The Long Wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...Spring 1962. Eighty pages, 16 in color, in the oversize, art-book format. The mustard colored cover has an embossed playing card of Bluebeard and one of his maids, the teaser to a five-page feature inside. Ray Bradbury contributed a lovely short fiction, a sort of "Gift of the Magi," in bed. Sixteen pages are devoted to a Guy de Maupassant story, Madame Tellier's Brothel, in "a new uncensored translation" and illustrated with 12 monograph sketches by Degas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...Though not in time for Halloween, the spring semester’s “Witchcraft and Charm Magic”—from the Folklore and Mythology department—may be right up the alley of those in the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. Undergraduates hoping to learn some of the charm magic described in the course guide might even be able to try it while studying for exams. This new course taught by department chair and Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell will also explore the history of neo-paganism...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bananas, Pirates and Witchcraft: 15 Courses to Shop | 7/14/2006 | See Source »

...feel like some of the blogs are enjoying the fiction of this saga rather than the truth. For example, I have been working with Endeavor, a talent agency, since early May, but it is more interesting to say that I signed with them last week. I've corrected some of the bloggers, but no one has updated their posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Amanda Congdon | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

Though not in time for Halloween, the spring semester’s “Witchcraft and Charm Magic”—from the Folklore and Mythology department—may be right up the alley of those in the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. Undergraduates hoping to learn some of the charm magic described in the course guide might even be able to try it while studying for exams. This new course taught by department chair and Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell will also explore the history of neo-paganism...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Around | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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