Pulp Today
Writer, filmmaker and raconteur David Avallone talks about and reads selections from classic pulp fiction. And day-drinks. Sometimes with special guests!
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Episode Archive
Chandler, The High Window, and Love Poetry
Episode Number: 6I wrap up my Chandler trilogy with a little something sweet from THE HIGH WINDOW. Next time... more authors, more drinking, and now with Special Guests!
Episode download: PulpToday006.mp3
Release Date: February 19, 2021
Run Time: 4:15Chandler, Carmen Sternwood, and the Big Sleep
Episode Number: 5I talk about that time Phil Marlowe met Carmen Sternwood -- 1939’s version of Kim Kardashian -- and reacted how you might expect. Bonus shoutout to Aimee Mann.
Episode download: PulpToday005.mp3
Release Date: February 19, 2021
Run Time: 6:45Raymond Chandler and the Simple Art of Murder
Episode Number: 4“Down those Mean Streets a man must go who is not himself mean.” What makes a great private eye? I drink and read a little bit from Raymond Chandler's seminal essay, "The Simple Art of Murder."
Episode download: PulpToday004.mp3
Release Date: February 19, 2021
Run Time: 7:33The Postman Always Rings Twice
Episode Number: 3Let's talk about literature and poverty and sex and desperation… and why you shouldn’t cast forty years olds in parts written for kids in their twenties. Pour yourself a drink and give a listen.
Episode download: PulpToday003.mp3
Release Date: February 19, 2021
Run Time: 11:39The Maltese Falcon/The Flitcraft Story
Episode Number: 2Dashiell Hammett invented existentialism in 1930, and I'm here to tell you all about it, in a little parable he called "The Flitcraft Story."
Episode download: PulpToday002.mp3
Release Date: February 19, 2021
Run Time: 9:00The Tall Dolores
Episode Number: 1I kick off our literary adventures with a little day-drinking, and reading the first pages of my father Michael's classic 1953 private eye novel THE TALL DOLORES.
Episode download: PulpToday001.mp3
Release Date: Feb 19, 2021
Run Time: 7:53
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