"And get a gander at some of the writers Gold Medal put into print: Elmore Leonard, Peter Rabe, Kurt Vonnegut, Day Keene, Jim Thompson, William Goldman, John D. MacDonald, Louis L'Amour, David Goodis, Richard Matheson, Charles Williams, and John Faulkner (William's brother).
"Depending on how you read the history, the glory years of Gold Medal-style book publishing were over by the mid-1960s. But the influence of the era lives on. It's in the very air around us."
Blogger Michael Blowhard looks back to 1950 and Gold Medal Books, the first publisher of original paperback fiction.
And Adam Dunn at CNN.com profiles neo-pulp publishers Hard Case Crime.
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