Conventionally associated with romance, crime, and science fiction, the pulps in fact came in every genre and subject. Published in vast numbers of titles, available everywhere, and sometimes selling in the millions, pulps were throwaway objects accessible to anyone with a quarter. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s. “There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.”-a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)Īmerican Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities.
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