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Oasis Hijinks

  • Liz Wood
  • October 21, 2016
The latest news in Oasis ridiculousness is a throwback: apparently, according to Danny Boyle, Noel Gallagher confessed he turned down the opportunity to get on the Trainspotting soundtrack because he mistakenly assumed the movie was about…
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The Real True Detective

  • P.E. Garcia
  • August 21, 2015
Before True Detective,  the TV show, there was True Detective, the pulp magazine with stories like “Sex Monster At Large” and “I Hit Her with the Bowling Pin.” True Crime…
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The Last Pulp Star

  • Bryan Washington
  • February 9, 2015
Chris Offutt talks about the life and death his father, one of America’s last adult-pulp writers, for NY Times Magazine: In the mid-1960s, Dad purchased several porn novels through the mail.…
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Expanding The Book Universe

  • Jake Slovis
  • December 30, 2014
For the New Yorker, Louis Menand explores how the 1939 launch of Pocket Books “transformed the culture of reading.” The mass-market paperback line was one of the first to be sold…
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The Lost Pulp of Gore Vidal

  • P.E. Garcia
  • September 5, 2014
Before he became an acclaimed novelist and political commentator, Gore Vidal was just a guy trying to make ends meet. Under three different pseudonyms, Vidal wrote a romance novel, three…
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Pulp Fiction from South India

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 30, 2013
But as I turned over the glossy, hardbound book in my hands, the seductive, bespectacled young woman with jasmine in her hair and an unusually large revolver in her hand…
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