P.S. Gets Mysterious

FictionMags INFORMS US that the short-lived P.S. magazine (three issues) was a "companion magazine to F&SF [Fantasy & Science Fiction] featuring non-fiction by 
many of the same authors." The topic being focused on in most of this issue is crime 
fiction as filtered through the private eye (P.I.) subgenre, written either by or about 
old pros Ron Goulart, holding forth here about the origins and development of the 
private eye; Ed Lacy about his career as a hardboiled P.I. author; James Thurber, 
who fictionally gives us a zoological take on private eyes; and Rex Stout, who work-
ed his own revolution in the field with Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. We've also 
added some offsite links for those of you who, with or without a subscription to the 
National Enquirer, might have enquiring minds.

P.S. Magazine, August 1966.
Periodical (68 pages).
Online at Archive.org (HERE).
(Note: Text is waterstained but readable.)
   Related: The Thrilling Detective (HERE).

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CONTENTS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST TO CRIME FICTION FANS:

   "The same things that bothered the heroes of Hemingway, Dos Passos and Fitzgerald began to unsettle the private detectives. And the Twenties' preoccupation with the 
American language, the dissatisfaction with Victorian rhetoric and polite exposition 
began to hit detective story writers."

(1) "The Private Eye."
By Ron Goulart (born 1933).
Article (6 pages).
Starts (HERE) and finishes (HERE).

"Our problems and preoccupations," writes Goulart, "have grown from the alleys and the mean streets of the 1920s."
   Related: Wikipedia (HERE).

Typo: "effected the detective story".

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   "You'd be astonished at the creative drive and skill needed to turn out formula stories."

(2) "I Dunit."
By Ed Lacy (Leonard S. Zinberg, 1911-68).
Article (7 pages).
Online (HERE).

Writing as a career can be precarious, writes Lacy: "Money has always been an 'iffy' deal, as compared to the wage earner who can expect, with reasonable certainty, his Friday check. I approach my mail box each day as if entering a gambling casino." His mid-'60s assessment of the state of his art: "The mystery novel is presently at such a low tide that some publishers flatly refuse even to read a suspense manuscript today, except for spy yarns or Gothic tales.
. . . for the run of the mill writer, like myself, it's tough going."
   Related: Wikipedia (HERE) - The GAD Wiki (HERE) - The Thrilling Detective (HERE).

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   "Once a gumpaw, always a gumpaw."

(3) "The White Rabbit Caper."
By James Thurber (1894-1961).
First appearance: The New Yorker, November 19, 1949.

Reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February 1953; EQMM (Australia), April 1953; EQMM (U.K.), October 1953; Compact: The Young People’s Digest, July 1954; Ellery Queen’s Anthology #6 (1964); and P.S., August 1966.

Collected in Thurber Country (1953).

Short short short story (3 pages).
Online (HERE).

"As the boys who turn out the mystery programs on the air might write a story for children."
   Related: Wikipedia (HERE) - Thurberhouse.org (HERE).

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   "I don't know a helluva lot about what's going to happen."

(4) "An Interview with Rex Stout" (1886-1975).
By Anonymous.
Interview (6 pages).
Online (HERE).
(Parental caution: Profanity.)

   ". . . the last dozen books that I've seen which deal with literature in the English language in the last century almost never even mention the book that I would rather have written than any other one book in our language in the last century . . ."
   Related: Wikipedia (HERE) - The GAD Wiki (HERE) - The Thrilling Detective (HERE).

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(5) Detective Quiz (HERE).

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