24 Quotes About Pulp

  • Author Lavie Tidhar
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    And also they’re just good escapist fun," Vivian said firmly, and Gill subsided beside her, giving an apologetic smile. "To read about these horrible things and know they never happened, and when you’re finished you can put down the book and take a deep breath and get on with your life. To know it’s fiction – ""Pulp fiction," Gill said ...

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  • Author D.A. Madigan
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    Pulp is almost zen, very nearly pure stream of unconsciousness. Here´s a good guy. There´s a bad guy. They hit each other. Oh, the bad guy is unmasked and it´s the greedy banker who was trying to foreclose on the old Beesby place! Wow. Next story, please.

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  • Author Ana Nieto Morillo
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    Duna avanzó en silencio entre los turistas, procurando no apartar la vista del suelo. No estaba acostumbrada a caminar descalza, pero era un requisito ineludible para acceder al Templo Karni Mata. Éste era famoso por sus habitantes, a los cuáles se veneraba y alimentaba desde hacía más de seiscientos años: las ratas.

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  • Author Callie Press
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    Never believe everything you read; all writers are liars, it’s what we do.

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  • Author Paula Rabinowitz
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    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) American 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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