Everett Raymond Kinstler, who passed away on May 26, remembered his illustration work in an interview, courtesy The Comics Journal.
Steven Brower: How did you get started?
Everett Raymond Kinstler: With the pulps. They were on 42nd Street and Third Ave. And they must have had a hundred pulp magazines. The owner was Harry Steeger. And there was one sort of rogue pulp magazine, being published and I remember the office was at Rockefeller Center. And the woman’s name was Dorothy McIlwraith. If you were to say to me how do you possibly remember 75 years ago, I am telling you I see her as clearly as I see you. And she had one publication, which was called Short Stories. That’s all they published and it was a monthly.
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Sam Moskowitz article on Virgil Finlay in Worlds of Tomorrow, November 1965. Covers his life and career. Scroll down a bit or search for "SAM MOSKOWITZ",
Reviews of Lawrence Block’s short story collections One Night Stands And Lost Weekends, and Enough Rope including stories from the crime digests of the 1950s
A nice review of a new collection of early science fiction from the pulps and digests all written by women, courtesy the New York Review of Books. The collection is The future is female, compiled by Lisa Yaszek.
The anthology dispels the commonly held belief that women didn’t participate much in science fiction before the Seventies and argues that a category of fiction often thought to be socially retrograde, technologically fetishistic, and poorly written is in fact rich in style and humanity.
