Coda: The Afterlife of Pulp

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1 Pulp: Biography of an American Object 1
5. 2. Pulp as Interface 40
6. 3. Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday: True Crime and 12 Million Black Voices 82
7. 4. Isak Dinesen Gets Drafted: Pulp, the Armed Services Editions, and GI Reading 109
8. 5. Pulping Ann Petry: The Case of Country Place 131
9. 6. Señor Borges Wins! Ellery Queen’s Garden 159
10. 7. Slips of the Tongue: Uncovering Lesbian Pulp 184
11. 8. Sci-Unfi: Bombs, Ovens, Delinquents, and More 209
12. 9. Demotic Ulysses: Policing Paperbacks in the Courts and Congress 244
13. Coda: The Afterlife of Pulp 281
14. Acknowledgments 301
15. Notes 307
16. Index 377