{"id":42294,"date":"2020-09-16T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=42294"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:06:00","slug":"a-riffle-through-archive-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/a-riffle-through-archive-org\/","title":{"rendered":"A riffle through Archive.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pulpwesternpopul0000dina\"><em>The Pulp Western: a popular history of the western fiction magazine in America<\/em><\/a> is new on Archive.org and possibly a survey of interest to readers, re: the current interest in both &#8216;the weird western&#8217; and in re-working western plots for new science-fiction and fantasy tales. It appears to have a strong focus on the writers and artists rather than the readers. Only a one-hour loan though. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasranger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Book-Review-The-Pulp-Western.pdf\"><em>Texas Ranger Despatch<\/em> magazine<\/a> had a review, and it seems it can be picked up fairly cheap in user paper form if you shop around for it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2020-09-11_152847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"398\" title=\"2020-09-11_152847\" style=\"display:inline;background-image:none;\" alt=\"2020-09-11_152847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2020-09-11_152847_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another find was a magazine reprint of \u201cLurker in the Lobby #3\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennonjames.com\/\">Kennon James<\/a>. The picture refers to Lovecraft&#8217;s one-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/01\/h-p-lovecraft-ticket-taker\/\">job as a cinema-booth ticket-clerk<\/a>, which I seem to recall he took in order to save the cash for one of his antiquarian trips, circa 1929\/30. I\u2019ve never seen this one before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/kennon-james-lurker3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"484\" title=\"kennon-james-lurker3\" style=\"display:inline;background-image:none;\" alt=\"kennon-james-lurker3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/kennon-james-lurker3_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, also now on Archive.org, <em>The Bookman<\/em> for key \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=%22the+bookman%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221938%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221934%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221933%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221932%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221931%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221930%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221929%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221928%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221927%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221926%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221925%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221924%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221923%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221922%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221921%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221920%22&amp;and%5B%5D=year%3A%221919%22&amp;sort=-publicdate&amp;page=2\">Lovecraft years<\/a>\u2019.&nbsp; Again, with only a \u201cone-hour borrow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2020-09-11_161627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"244\" title=\"2020-09-11_161627\" style=\"display:inline;background-image:none;\" alt=\"2020-09-11_161627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2020-09-11_161627_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pulp Western: a popular history of the western fiction magazine in America is new on Archive.org and possibly a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/a-riffle-through-archive-org\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}