Cullen Gallagher lives in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has appeared in many publications including The Paris Review, Brooklyn Rail, and Not Coming to a Theater Near You, as well as in the anthologies Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion (2016), edited by Anthony Nield, and Screen Slate: New York City Cinema 2011–2015 (2017), edited by Jon Dieringer. He blogs about crime fiction at Pulp Serenade (www.pulp-serenade.com).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“Pretty Big Once”: W. R. Burnett’s Cynical Americana
W. R. Burnett’s multifarious fiction exposed the fatal emptiness of American ambition....
Becoming Day Keene: The Pre-Pulp Career of Gunard Hjertstedt
Cullen Gallagher digs up the working-class roots of noir master Day Keene....
Bradbury Noir: The Crimes of a Science Fiction Master
Cullen Gallagher investigates “Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury.”...
The Original Punk Rock PI: On Rex Weiner’s Ford Fairlane
Cullen Gallagher rides shotgun with Ford Fairlane, the punk rock PI created by author Rex Weiner....
The Criminal Kind: Noir Women
A uniformly excellent anthology of “domestic noir” with no weak links....
The Criminal Kind: Dennis Palumbo’s "Night Terrors"
Palumbo uses all the noir conventions in surprisingly fresh ways....
The Criminal Kind: Attica Locke’s Cutting Season
Attica Locke’s latest novel is a double-edged murder mystery boasting not only Locke’s strikingly original voice, but also a timely and politically committed story....
Dark, Darker, Darkest: New and Republished Crime
Triptych Image: "Eavesdropper"Image Credit: Amalia Pica2013 MARKS THE 45th ANNIVERSARY of one of crime fiction’s most enduring and ...
The Criminal Kind: Bardsley, Piccirilli, Woods
On "Cash Out," "Last Kind Words," and "A Death in Mexico...
Voyeuristic Pleasures
Books by Wallace Stroby, Alison Gaylin, Joe R. Lansdale, Hilary Davidson, Chris F. Holm, and Robert Silverberg....
The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman
The hallmark of Gorman's style is the utter simplicity and clarity of his language. Straightforward prose is the hallmark of his moral universe....
The Criminal Kind: Christa Faust
Apathy, booze, and cynicism are the standard PI’s ABCs, but Bruen’s detective takes things to a whole new level....
Sharp Tongues
Megan Abbott possesses one of the most lyrical voices in all of noir....
Hell, Hurt, Blood, and Rapture
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington....
Noir Enough?
"I lived, I fucked up, and I'm going to die."...
Occasional PI
"Humans are like hurt machines."...
Mysterious Thugs
The road is dark....
Warlords and Tycoons
A long and twisty path....
King of the Paperbacks
Whittington published 170 novels in the his three-decade-long career....
The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
Hard Stuff
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction....
The Wile E. Coyote of Crime Fiction
His novels are filled with chases, explosions, and, amidst all the mayhem, a dash of philosophy about the absurdity of existence....
Plunging into the Supernatural
Be warned: this isn’t a typical “werewolf” narrative....
The Criminal Kind: Sara Gran
An attempt to fashion a new mold for the 21st-century P.I....
Mike Hammer is Back
One of the preeminent archetypes of the private detective....
Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir
Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game....
The Criminal Kind: Geezer Noir
"A collection of twenty-eight tales in the slef-defined niche of "geezer noir."...
The Criminal Kind: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
Tense existential snapshots of sudden violence....
