As much as I like and read great fiction, I’m an enthusiastic but abashed reader of pulp novels too. While I wait for my new office to be vacated, I am squatting in the office of one of Columbia’s, and the profession’s more influential thinkers. He shall remain nameless. It is a great pleasure, however, to see half the bookshelves filled with crappy mystery and spy fiction. There is hope for me yet.
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
November 11, 2022
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@NC_Parker said “My former PhD chair has hundreds of crappy paperback mysteries lining her bedroom walls. The ev. bio books in the living room.”
JUST CURIOUS…HOW DID YOU (PARKER) GET TO KNOW THE CONTENTS OF YOUR PH.D. CHAIR’S BEDROOM WALLS TO THE LEAST MINUTE DETAIL? From hours spent in there doing/”studying” what?
Great minds read pulp too? http://t.co/qowuHRXo
Used to be all the shelves, and piles on the floor. Person not to be named has cleaned up in the last 4-5 years or so.
@cblatts – My former PhD chair has hundreds of crappy paperback mysteries lining her bedroom walls. The ev. bio books in the living room.
@cblatts yes we do. :) and soppy romance novels. Not teen vampire romances though. there must be limits.
In Bertold Brecht’s house in Berlin – now a museum – you can see how his study was set up when he lived there. He had an entire bookshelf dedicated to pulp action and mystery books and he re-invented theatre pretty much single handedly