Books and Beyond: Pulp fiction

This week Alison and Karen (aka Hunny Bunny and Pumpkin) celebrate Pulp Fiction, the cheap, disreputable paperbacks which eventually became cult classics, and its heirs: suspense, hardboiled crime, and noir.

Listen to this episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast and read on for the books mentioned in the show.

Books mentioned:

• Desert of the heart by Jane Rule
• Darkness at dawn: early suspense classics by Cornell Woolrich
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The thin man by Dashiell Hammett
• The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Farewell my lovely by Raymond Chandler
• The postman always rings twice by James M Cain
• The Cormoran Strike series, starting with The cuckoo’s calling, by Robert Galbraith

Other notable hardboiled detectives and series mentioned:

• Mike Hammer in The Mike Hammer collection by Mickey Spillane
• John Shaft in Shaft by Ernest Tidyman 
• Easy Rawlins in Devil in a blue dress by Walter Mosley
• Lew Archer in The drowning pool by Ross Macdonald

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

Catch us on Planet FM104.6, Sundays at 9.35pm. Recent shows can be listened to as podcasts via the Auckland Libraries podcast.