Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Lester Dent: Pulp Master



Lester Dent bio | Pulp Serenade: Lester Dent on Words and Writing| Comic Promo Trailer (Comicon 2006) | The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot | LAND OF ALWAYS NIGHT review| THE CRIME SPECTACULARIST review | HELL'S HOOFPRINTS review.

8 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

Interesting film. Like a lot of folks my age, I began collecting the Bantam Doc reprints hwen they started coming out. I'm only missing a few.

Just recently began looking into some of his other work the small presses are beginning to put out.

Charles Gramlich said...

Good stuff. How amazingly prolific he was.

Anonymous said...

200,000 published words a month?!Leaping lizards! Do you think the pressure of writing that many words gave him the heart attack?

Matt

David Cranmer said...

Randy, Wish there was more footage/documentary on him because this snippet was interesting but frustratingly brief.

I collect Dent's work and consider some of his non Doc Savage novels to be among his finest writing. Like the recent Hard Case Crime.

Charles, 200,000 is damn prolific.

Matt, I'm not sure about the details of his death but he certainly packed a few lifetimes into his fifty-four years.

Deka Black said...

Simply, there is individuals able to do such amazing feats of wordcraft like Dent. 200.000 each month!

David Cranmer said...

In another time, they may have been tried for witchcraft. :)

Evan Lewis said...

Cool little film. A nice find.

Anonymous said...

The first film footage I have seen of Dent which was neat.

Brian Reed