"Writer of Pulp Novels"

A proud title, and one I don’t much like to see in the obits column…especially in this case.

Mickey Spillane has died at the age of 88.

Spillane had no pretensions about his writing, going about it with the philosophy that “If the public likes you, you’re good.”

(The New York Times article title — subscription-blocked, unfortunately — reads, “Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels”. Ah, to be critic-proof…)

[tags]Mickey Spillane, pulp[/tags]