Ricky Lee Grove

The Paperback Show

Arts EN ↓ 30 episodes

Exploring the world of paperback books, their history, authors, and cover artists. We also feature interviews with readers, authors, and paperback collectors.

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Ricky Lee Grove

Episodes

Episode 5 - Gold Medal Paperbacks 01.04.2022 17:26

You can read our full Paperback Show 5 notes along with a gallery of paperback covers at paperbackshow.com

Episode 4 - The Armed Service Edition Paperback 18.03.2022 27:22

The background of America's response to Nazi book burnings, the formation of various groups to provide soldiers with reading material, and the final creation of the group that would select, edit, produce and send over 100 million ASE paperbacks to soldiers all over the world are covered in this episode of the Paperback Show. There's also a short section on "recent paperbacks" included in the podca...

Episode 3 - Raymond Chandler & The Big Sleep - Guest Richard Brewer 04.03.2022 55:14

You can read the full show notes for this episode at paperbackshow.com . I've also included many scans of Chandler paperback covers and my full collection of Ballantine's Tom Adams covers for the run of Chandler's novels.

Episode 2 - Pocket Books, Vampire Hunter D paperback series - guest M dot Strange 18.02.2022 15:58

Full show notes with links can be found at paperbackshow.com

Episode 1 - Ace Books & Lisa Morton 30.01.2022 40:18

Full show notes with links (lots of paperback cover art) are available at the Paperback Show website . Music is by the US Army Blues Band (Live at Blues Alley) which is public domain and available at Freemusicarchive.org