tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post6037680531806937271..comments2024-03-29T09:49:41.273-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: The Sky Raider - Donald E. KeyhoeJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-49776815940359652702018-08-17T21:42:50.194-05:002018-08-17T21:42:50.194-05:00I'd forgotten all about GRIT. I used to see is...I'd forgotten all about GRIT. I used to see issues of it around, but my parents never subscribed to it. I think maybe one of my aunts did. So I read it now and then. It appears to still exist as a magazine devoted to rural living but doesn't run any fiction.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-5843490434264629202018-08-17T19:46:27.412-05:002018-08-17T19:46:27.412-05:00GRIT, of course, was still heavy on serialized nov...GRIT, of course, was still heavy on serialized novels into the 1960s (and maybe later; I was seeing it only for a few years in those 1960s), but it wasn't exactly a newspaper.<br /><br />My local paper, the Minneapolis STAR-TRIBUNE, has done one serialized novel (over the course of a dozen weeks or so) for the lsat three (I think) years. I'll admit I've not read any of them, though.Denny Liennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-34357492780157754112018-08-17T14:45:02.701-05:002018-08-17T14:45:02.701-05:00Todd,
I remember seeing the book version of McFadd...Todd,<br />I remember seeing the book version of McFadden's THE SERIAL but didn't know it started out as an actual serial.<br /><br />Tom,<br />I didn't have any idea what Keyhoe looked like, so I had to find some images. Yes, he did have a certain other-worldly look! I can imagine him in a shiny jumpsuit holding a ray gun.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-27294518380156594422018-08-17T12:21:29.650-05:002018-08-17T12:21:29.650-05:00I've read many of his aviation stories, and en...I've read many of his aviation stories, and enjoyed them. He was a marine pilot, I think. and to look at him you'd think he was an alien from another world. Yeah, I loved his UFO books, too.Tom Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594257113339405939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-38538541418736830372018-08-17T11:40:11.202-05:002018-08-17T11:40:11.202-05:00The most recent famous examples I'm aware of w...The most recent famous examples I'm aware of were Cyra McFadden's THE SERIAL, in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE in the mid 1970s...when it was a self-conscious throwback with a modern focus...and TALES OF THE CITY by Armistead Maupin and its sequels, which followed in the same paper, and they apparently sparked a brief vogue in some other papers [WIKI mentions <i>Tangled Lives</i> (Boston), <i>Bagtime</i> (Chicago), and <i>Federal Triangle</i> (Washington, D.C.)].<br /><br />I'm mostly aware of Keyhoe from his "nonfiction" as excerpted or reviewed in FANTASTIC UNIVERSE in the '50s...amused that he worked on DR. YEN SIN...and glad he did better work.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com