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Pulp Fiction on NPR
NPR is reporting (Pulp Fiction Murdered Long Sentences) on Vintage Books new collection of pulp fiction private detective stories: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps edited by Otto Penzler.
The story looks at, among other things, the way that writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett changed the way stories worked by using much shorter, clipped sentences instead of the much longer sentences of Henry James that were filled with lots of description.
You can read and example of this in Charles G. Booth’s Stag Party (pdf) on NPR courtesy Vintage Books.
— michael | January 15, 2008 03:30 PM | Reading rants & raves
