{"id":1348,"date":"2003-08-02T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/02\/1348.html"},"modified":"2003-08-02T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2003-08-03T04:44:25","slug":"private-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/08\/02\/private-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Private eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wandered off to search for a concise definition of \"new pulp,\" and happened across some mystery webzines.  Somehow it hadn't occurred to me that there was such a thing&#8212;there are plenty of f\/sf\/horror webzines, and several lit-fic ones, but no extant romance ones that I can recall, and it never occurred to me to go looking for online mystery or western magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the most interesting page I came across is a page that answers the question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillingdetective.com\/trivia\/triv78.html\">What the hell is a Private Eye, anyway?<\/a>.  It provides an interesting comparison between \"private detectives\" (think Holmes) and \"private eyes\" (think Spade), and demonstrates that these kinds of subgenre-definition argument (\"which promise spirited debate with little or no hope of consensus\") aren't limited to the speculative fiction world.<\/p>\n<p>(As for New Pulp in the speculative fiction world: in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speculations.com\/rumormill\/index.php?t=711&m=1488\">posting in his author topic<\/a>, Charlie once referred to \"reclaiming heroic fantasy in a non-camp fashion\"; I suppose if we insert \"and science fiction\" after \"fantasy,\" that's as good a definition as any.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered off to search for a concise definition of &#8220;new pulp,&#8221; and happened across some mystery webzines. Somehow it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}