London also commented that Feminist Press is actively working with the academic community to seek course adoptions for In a Lonely Place. Smith's study of hard-boiled fiction: 'Reading these texts as classics is not at all the same as reading them as trash.' Hogeland continues, 'This reissue of In a Lonely Place invites us to read its feminist work.' It's also literature.'īacking up London's point is Lisa Maria Hogeland's afterword to A Lonely Place, which features this quote from Erin A. We're not just going for the fact that this is pulp. 'They're thrilled that she's getting her due and being brought back to print with a very serious emphasis. 'Dorothy was like their grandmother,' said Feminist Press associate publisher Lisa London.

'Why else would she have named him Dix Steele?' she queried.Ī number of today's leading women mystery authors, including Sarah Paretsky and Marsha Muller, have agreed to write blurbs for In a Lonely Place. But I think the distinction that should be made, and that's made almost from page one, is that this is about misogyny, as opposed to books by Jim Thompson, which are misogynistic.'Ĭasella explained that Hughes offers plenty of commentary in the novel through its main character. I'm sure there will be people who don't think this was appropriate for the Feminist Press to do. While some might be a bit surprised that the press is publishing pulp fiction, others might wonder whether Hughes' harrowing 1947 novel - which is narrated by a male serial killer and rapist - is appropriate for Feminist Press' raison d'être, Casella said. Hughes' In a Lonely Place, Valerie Taylor's The Girls in 3-B, and Faith Baldwin's Skyscraper. What is scheduled for publication in early November are Dorothy B. 'Yet we're still considering it,' Casella said. That title, which Feminist Press is choosing not to name, didn't make it to the first round of fall releases. 'We felt it was touching on issues that were kind of explosive for its time,' Feminist Press publisher Jean Casella told BTW.

The idea for Femmes Fatales, which presents books originally published from the 1930s through the 1960s, came after a used-book seller in Gainesville, Florida, sent the Feminist Press a book by a local author that was originally published in the 1930s. Hard-boiled noir, taboo lesbian romances, radical science fiction, and other forms of pulp fiction written by women can be found in a new series called Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp, which was recently launched by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

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