All articles from Woman of Letters
This pulp fiction journal had sleazy covers and a low circulation. But it still produced an iconic character.
For the past week, I've been reading a set of stories, written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s, about a tall, brawny, sword-wielding adventurer named Conan.These stories take place in a fantasy world that resembles the early Iron Age, and in these tales, Conan is sometimes a thief, sometimes
One fiction journal has left me stumped. I can't get a handle on it.
Once upon a time, there existed a set of journals that published lots of fiction and were extremely popular. They were printed on slick, glossy paper and for this reason they were known as 'the slicks'. These journals often had circulations in the millions, and they paid thousands of dollars per sto
The good guy always wins. Because he's so good. That's why he wins.
The people of this village could not remember a time before the law. They could not remember a time when they had solved disputes simply, according to custom, without resorting to trial or punishment. Could not remember a time when theft was unknown and murder was rare, when simple goodness had reig