Gang Pulp

Bibliography

“Ban on Crime Story Magazines Is Sought in Chicago Council.” (Associated Press) New York Times, July 29, 1932.

Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934. Columbia University Press, 1999.

Ellis, Douglas. Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps. Adventure House, 2003.

“ ‘Gang Stories’ Magazines To Be Withdrawn.” The Bee (Danville, Virginia), February 21, 1930.

Gunnison, John P. “Let’s Try Strange Courtroom Suicide Stories.” The Pulp Collector, Summer 1988.

“Hersey, Revisited.” The Pulp Collector, Fall 1991.

Haskin, Frederic J. “Gangster Stories of Today Are Successors of the Dime Novels” (in The Haskin Letter column of May 20, 1931). The Independent (Helena, Montana), May 25, 1931.

Hawkins, Willard E. Untitled, unsigned editorial. The Author & Journalist, May 1930. Account of Hersey’s “arrest” in Denver.

Hersey, Harold. The New Pulpwood Editor. Adventure House, 2002. Reprint of Pulpwood Editor (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937).

“John S. Sumner, Foe of Vice, Dies.” New York Times, June 22, 1971.

Lichtblau, Joseph. “The NEW Gangster Story.” Writer’s Digest, September 1930.

“The Lighter Side” (column). The Hartford Courant, February 20, 1930.

“Magazine Attacks Newstands’ Wares.” New York Times, October 29, 1929. Report of article in Catholic weekly, America.

“Magazines Stopped Here.” New York Times, February 20, 1930.

Parton, Lemuel F. “New York Revives Old Law to Stamp Out Gang Stories.” Appleton Post-Crescent (Wisconsin), February 22, 1930. Syndicated article.

“Reports on 1928 Vice War.” New York Times, May 12, 1929. Describes mission and scope of activities for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

“Seize 3,000 Books as ‘Indecent’ Writing.” New York Times, October 5, 1929.

Van Raalte, Joseph. Bo Broadway (column). Olean Evening Herald (New York), February 16, 1931.

“Volte Face.” Writer’s Digest, April 1930. News item on Hersey’s censorship problem.

Woolf, S. J. “A Vice Suppressor Looks at Our Morals.” New York Times, October 9, 1932. Interview with John S. Sumner, executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.