These two young girls, framed in the window, were unmistakably kissing. It had to be, Mr. Crispian thought. Two girls who were just roommates or good friends might kiss each other now and then, he figured. But they wouldn't kiss on the lips the way these two were doing. And they wouldn't go in for buttock grabbing and breast squeezing. That's pricelessly funny. But everything circles back to him, as his spying puts him in the uncomfortable position, Rear Window fashion, of witnessing a possible crime.
A clever ending follows, but future sci-fi legend or not, this is mediocre fiction. Silverberg was just trying to pay bills, which we can certainly respect. He later proved he could do much better. Vintage Pulp Sep 5 Sir Squeezalot starts slow but once he gets warmed up he's a hell of a lot of fun. The book was written by Robert Silverberg under his Don Elliott alter ego. The distinguished Silverberg is of course famous as the mind behind award winning novels like A Time of Changes and Lord Valentine's Castle , but early in his career he paid the bills by surreptitiously cranking out sleaze classics like LSD Lusters and Sin on Wheels.
When these serious writers are outed for their early smut we always picture them reacting like vampires suddenly exposed to the light, shrinking into a far corner and hissing eternal curses. But Silverberg seems pretty chill about having worked in soft porn. He even wrote the foreword to one of the reprints. Vintage Pulp May 8 I'll have to call you back.
Something urgent just landed on my desk. Above, yet another office sleaze cover from Greenleaf Classics, that most reliable of low rent imprints. Too Many Partner s was written by John Dexter, a pseudonym for various authors, in this case one who remains unidentified. This was published in with Robert Bonfils art. Vintage Pulp Mar 28 I'm pretty sure she doesn't even like me. I think the lockdown is making her do this out of sheer boredom. Holliday is, as you probably know by now, a house pseudonym used by many.
This time it's being inhabited by Arthur Plotnik, who wrote nine other Greenleaf novels. This one deals with a man who descends into increasing depths of so-called depravity in order to experience bigger and bigger thrills. The cover art is by Harold W. We'll have more from Greenleaf soon.
McCauley cover art literature. Vintage Pulp Dec 31 Need a service animal? He's happy to do the job. McCauley cover art literature lgbt. Vintage Pulp Dec 7 Yeah, wow, nice. I've never seen one without hair. It's slick as a— Wait, did you say you tore it out with hot wax? Vintage Pulp Oct 9 I don't understand your reluctance to do me in the privacy of my office. Vintage Pulp Sep 28 You're amazing. This whole reputation you have for evil is totally undeserved.
Wait, what are you doing? In Dallas, Texas, U. President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded as they ride in a motorcade through Dealy Plaza. Lee Harvey Oswald , an employee of the schoolbook depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired, was arrested on charges of the murder of a local police officer and was subsequently charged with the Kennedy killing. He denied shooting anyone, claiming he was a patsy, but was killed by Jack Ruby on November 24, before he could be indicted or tried.
Today, Americans who believe JFK was killed as the result of a conspiracy are routinely dismissed in the press, yet the vast majority of them believe Oswald did not act alone. Former heavyweight boxing champ Max Baer dies of a heart attack in Hollywood, California.
Baer had a turbulent career. He lost to Joe Louis in , but two years earlier, in his prime, he defeated German champ and Nazi hero Max Schmeling while wearing a Star of David on his trunks. The victory was his legacy, making him a symbol to Jews, and also to all who hated Nazis.
In Nuremberg, Germany, in the Palace of Justice, the trials of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany begin. The SETI Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the discovery of extrasolar planets, and the habitability of the galaxy, is founded in California by Thomas Pierson and Dr.
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Click here to give us your best shot. Click the group of books beginning with:. I define "sleaze" as using sexual sensationalism to explore the borders of what is considered acceptable in the current literary environment. The closer a book, topic or cover gets to that line, the "sleazier" it is. If it crosses the line, it would pick up such monikers as "radical," "pornographic," "underground" or "XXX. HOW the publisher accomplished the "Sleaze" image sometimes made all the difference. Many of these books published in the 50's and 60's might have been marketed as hardboiled mystery or romance novels, but the publisher believed that the work could make a larger profit by packaging it as a sexually oriented work.
I sort of put "Sleaze" into two categories. First is the type of publication that used sex to sell books that might otherwise be categorized as mystery or romance. The second type of publisher wanted to sell "sex books" but couldn't be completely uninhibited because the U. Court System still had a very broad definition of "pornography," which was illegal.
And so, they pressed the edges of that particular envelope very hard, and often had books questioned in court. In the case of the first category sort of the "R-rated" sleaze books , the largest publishers were Beacon and Midwood.
Beacon was the first regular paperback-sized book published by the Universal Publishing Company, which also issued such labels as Uni, Intimate , Royal Giant , Stallion and Fiesta most of which were digest-sized books. The Beacon label would eventually give way to Softcover Library starting somewhere around book B , but it kept the same lighthouse colophon. Midwood was published by Tower Publications. Beginning with , they are identified as Midwood Tower Books.
Later in its run, Midwood would print more and more photo covers, often on "Double-Novels.
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