Author: Alan Kelly
Pulp Press
Review by Cathi Unsworth
Pulp Press showcases a talent whose precociousness transcends the boundaries of exploitation fiction. Young Irish writer Alan Kelly’s Let Me Die a Woman – the title itself a homage to Doris Wishman’s 1978 documentary on transgender identity and ‘the third sex’ — is a mash-up of horror, sci-fi, queercore, folk and fairytale, that is possessed of such audacious wit and originality that it seems the author has created a whole new trans-genre of his own.
Brighton’s Pulp Press have been on a mission to rekindle the appeal of ‘fiction the way it used to be,’ since the imprint kicked into life last year with founder Danny Hogan’s Killer Tease. A cute pocket-sized paperback with cover art that evoked the golden age of Black Mask and Pan, a story concerning a vengeful burlesque bombshell that Russ Meyer would have been proud...
Pulp Press
Review by Cathi Unsworth
Pulp Press showcases a talent whose precociousness transcends the boundaries of exploitation fiction. Young Irish writer Alan Kelly’s Let Me Die a Woman – the title itself a homage to Doris Wishman’s 1978 documentary on transgender identity and ‘the third sex’ — is a mash-up of horror, sci-fi, queercore, folk and fairytale, that is possessed of such audacious wit and originality that it seems the author has created a whole new trans-genre of his own.
Brighton’s Pulp Press have been on a mission to rekindle the appeal of ‘fiction the way it used to be,’ since the imprint kicked into life last year with founder Danny Hogan’s Killer Tease. A cute pocket-sized paperback with cover art that evoked the golden age of Black Mask and Pan, a story concerning a vengeful burlesque bombshell that Russ Meyer would have been proud...
- 4/29/2010
- by bryan_bloodsoaker
- Planet Fury
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