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Written by January 27, 2022

Ep 1: Introduction to the Show, Ace Doubles, and Lisa Morton Interview

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In our first episode, Paperback Show host/producer Ricky Lee Grove introduces the Paperback Show Podcast. He shares the story of his first paperback purchase at the age of 12 years old. At a local used paperback shop, he picked up an Ace Double paperback which contained Philip E. High’s Reality Forbidden and A. Bertram Chandler’s Contraband

Written by January 26, 2022

Paperback Show Ep 1 Covers Gallery

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In the first episode of the Paperback Podcast, I referred to several books. Here are the covers of those books. The Philip K. Dick covers are some of my favorites Episode 1 – Covers

Written by January 16, 2022

New Arrivals for the Paperback Show Library

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I love shopping for books. Recently, went to the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, CA., and spent a couple of hours going through the paperback collection. I discovered some great paperbacks at reasonable prices: Gothic Romance, Black Fiction, Mystery, Naval Fiction, and Literary Fiction. I found a great old Penguin Classics paperback edition of Thomas

Written by January 13, 2022

The Uncanny Spell of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy

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“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation I can’t stop reading and re-reading the remarkable trilogy of novels by Jeff Vandemeer collectively titled The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance). The one-volume hardback edition came out last

Written by January 5, 2022

Favorite Book Links

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This page lists several BOOK LINKS to websites I visit weekly for information and news on books, bookstores, and reading. I’ll be updating this list frequently as I discover new sites that interest and inspire me.  Kayo Books is the absolute best bookstore for vintage paperbacks and pulps. Located in San Francisco, the store is

Written by January 5, 2022

Ep 3 – Raymond Chandler & the Big Sleep. Special Guest: Richard Brewere

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Episode 3 of the Paperback Show features a discussion of the novels of Raymond Chandler with bookseller and audio-book producer, Richard Brewer. We focus, in particular, on Chandler’s classic – The Big Sleep. It was a lengthy conversation so we released a condensed version of the show for our regular podcast. We are making the

Written by January 2, 2022

Broken April by Ismail Kadare

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I’m always looking through articles and bibliographies on books; searching for new authors and new reading experiences. So when Caustic Cover Critic recommended Broken April in his Best-Books-of-the-Year (2009), I was intrigued. “It’s very well written, which helps, but the underlying idea is even more fascinating. The setting is Kadare’s native Albania, where the hill-dwelling people have

Written by January 1, 2022

First Lines From Recent Paperback Purchases

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Looking over my vintage paperback loot from the recent 32nd Annual Paperback Show, I found myself reading the first paragraphs of each book in succession just to get a taste of the writers style. They were surprisingly different. In fact, the one book that I bought on a whim (The Mark of Pak San Ri) with

Written by January 1, 2022

Ep 1 – Introduction to the Show & Ace Doubles

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In our first episode, Paperback Show host/producer Ricky Lee Grove introduces the Paperback Show Podcast. He shares the story of his first paperback purchase at the age of 12 years old. At a local used paperback shop, he picked up an Ace Double paperback which contained Philip E. High’s Reality Forbidden and A. Bertram Chandler’s Contraband

Written by October 22, 0202

Episode 9 – Dan Marlowe: Neglected Gold Medal Crime Novelist

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Dan J. Marlowe is a master crime novelist who deserves to be part of the pantheon of crime writers like Jim Thompson, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), and Patricia Highsmith. Why has he been forgotten? Probably because he wrote his major crime novels for a paperback publisher (Gold Medal) and never had a hardback publisher. Also,

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