The Sheltering nightflyers There are so many authors from this time period that sadly get almost no notice any yet imo they hold their own with the big names like Goodis and Thompson there was a definite style to the 50s noir the timeline the technology the racism and sexism of a changing world that mixed together with some really good writing to make a genre Anyhow look around there are some truly great noir writers that need remembering so as to not fall to dust like most of the paperback originals The Sheltering Night The Sheltering Night issued as a paperback original by Gold medal in 1952 and numbered 219 is a coming of age story about a precocious 17 year old Raised to be a Broadway star by her single parent mother whose hopes and dreams rested on this perfect girl little did her mother suspect that this dear child Ronnie was sneaking down the hall to bedazzle and bed one of the boarders or that she d run off and marry the first sailor she met in a bar and get knocked up in the process The melodrama then proceeds as Ronnie decides she is still destined for the bright lights and the big stage taking off on a Greyhound abandoning her sailor husband and infant and crazy mother and con artist grandmother. The Sheltering nighteye mha It is a novel about the progress of someone through their life the snap decisions they make the paths they choose to tread Ronnie is not necessarily the best main character She s self centered and impulsive and doesn t think through what she s doing or who she s involved with But she approaches everything with a bit of wide eyed innocence not necessarily having a conscience about what she does or the effect she has on people. The Sheltering nighteye mha The paperback has on the cover the tagline that she traded the hope of heaven for a paradise on earth Who knows who added that to the cover or what it is supposed to mean The Sheltering Night

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Born in 1912 in Marine City Michigan Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine At sixteen he joined the Marines He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy Discharged from the Marines in Los Angeles in 1932 Fisher stayed in L. The Sheltering nightingale where he continued to write for US Navy for which he was paid one cent a word He was also by this time writing for a number of sex magazines In 1934 he moved to New York where despite near destitution he continued to pursue a career as a writer and met for the first time his friend Frank Gruber. Night by night shelter Prior to his arrival in New York Fisher had corresponded with Gruber but the two had never met It was in the Manhatt Born in 1912 in Marine City Michigan Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine At sixteen he joined the Marines He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy Discharged from the Marines in Los Angeles in 1932 Fisher stayed in L. The sheltering sky book where he continued to write for US Navy for which he was paid one cent a word He was also by this time writing for a number of sex magazines In 1934 he moved to New York where despite near destitution he continued to pursue a career as a writer and met for the first time his friend Frank Gruber. Book the sheltering night book Prior to his arrival in New York Fisher had corresponded with Gruber but the two had never met It was in the Manhattan office of Ed Bodin an agent who represented both authors that the writers finally crossed paths They of course hit it off immediately and left Bodin s office on Fifth Avenue just below 23rd Street on their way to Greenwich Village where in Washington Square Park they talked for three hours about their hopes ambitions and their writing. The Sheltering nightflyers Over the years the two men would remain close Gruber some fifteen years older than Fisher was from a small farming town in Iowa Already a prolific pulp writer he counted amongst his friends the future father of Scientology L Ron Hubbard the latter once told Gruber that his shift from science fiction to religious fiction occurred when he was shot in the neck with a poison dart while travelling up the In 1941 the same year Fisher published I Wake Up Screaming Gruber under the name Charles K Boston published an all but forgotten Hollywood satire entitled The Silver Jackass Much lighter yet no less bitter than I Wake Up Screaming Gruber s whodunit was in many ways the other side of the coin from Fisher s novel At Warners Gruber would go on to write the screenplay for Eric Ambler s The Mask of Dimitrios 1946 and Bulldog Drummond A. The sheltering night epub ebook download I Bezzerides remembers Jack Warner walking into the writers building and finding Gruber Fisher and himself not at their desks but on the floor shooting craps He looked at his three writers turned and walked away knowing there was little he could do about such recalcitrance. The sheltering night book review Gruber and Fisher constituted something of a two person mutual admiration society At a party for the release of The Blue Dahlia Gruber nearly came to blows with his hero Raymond Chandler when the latter said some unfavourable things about Fisher The reason for the altercation was that Fisher and Chandler were in dispute over screen credits for The Lady in the Lake Chandler was convinced that his name should have appeared on the screen as well Though he defended his friend Gruber would remain a life long admirer of Chandler s writing Foreshadowing Gruber s run in with Chandler Fisher hearing someone unfairly criticise one of Gruber s stories in the Black Mask office launched such an attack on the unfortunate writer that the editor had to throw the Gruber critic out of the office and declare him persona non grata at Black Mask. Book the sheltering night book Recounting his early days as a writer in The Pulp Jungle Gruber attests to Fisher s burning ambition to succeed as a writer a quality which at times assumed humorous dimensions Such as when Fisher wrote to the New York electricity company which because of an outstanding bill was about to switch off his power asking them how they would feel if they had turned off the electricity on Jack London He told them that he too would become a famous writer and they would be ashamed of themselves for cutting off his electricity But cut him off they did after which Fisher was forced to write by candlelight In that same book Gruber goes on to say that Fisher was most adept at writing romance site_link She traded hope of heaven for a paradise on earth Published in 1952 The Sheltering Night.

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09 2011It seemed like a smutty titillating 50s pulp but turned into a 50s melodrama about stage mothers and real estate The Sheltering Night Another forgotten masterpiece.A.A