Pulp covers

We had many goals in mind with our book, but two of the most important - and ultimately most rewarding for us as authors - were: 1) That we pack in as

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") are inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed with ragged untrimmed edges; in contrast, magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages filled with lurid or exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Pulp covers were printed in color on…

As David Bowie himself implied in a 1975 interview, 'Young Americans' doesn't have much of a narrative. Rather, it’s a portrait of ambivalence, viewed at some remove. The same cannot be said for Young Americans, the wholly imaginary midcentury pulp novel.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT starring Bogart, Veidt and Lorre.

There was an old secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh where I whiled away many an afternoon during the school summer holidays browsing pulp books, American comics and gentlemen's magazines. ..

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Yesterday we wrote of the low opinions the eminent J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend C.S. Lewis held for the “vulgar” creations of Walt Disney.

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