Word: pulping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe they call it erotica, but local college students like their sex wrapped up in pulp paper for spare time reading just as much as their less-educated contemporaries, a survey of Square newspaper stand operators, spa keepers, and candy store owners disclosed this week...
...always had a taste for handsome women, and the year of his divorce he married Helen Wismer, a clergyman's daughter, Mount Holyoke graduate and the former editor of a string of pulp magazines. She expertly manages his business affairs and his home, and has helped him enormously in conquering his blindness. The Thurbers spend part of every winter and spring in Hot Springs, Va. and Bermuda. Summer and fall they live in their beautiful twelve-room, go-year-old house on 65 acres of land in West Cornwall, Conn...
Georges Simenon, 48, is fashioned of no ordinary human clay himself. With some 350 novels behind him, ranging from crime thrillers to racy pulp romances, he still maintains the working habits of a one-man assembly line. Up at 6:30 a.m., with a pot of coffee at his side, he types a 20-page chapter in 2½ hours, completes a twelve-chapter novel (common in France) in twelve days. (His translators' pace: three to six months.) Explains Simenon in halting English: "I write fast because I have not zee brains to write slow...
...commission seemed to feel that the ailment had been picked up largely from a lack of Canadian resistance to low-grade U.S. cultural germs such as soap operas, Hollywood banalities, pulp magazines and other commercialized peddling to mass tastes. Canada, the commissioners conceded, has gained much from the U.S. in higher culture (e.g., symphony broadcasts, Guggenheim fellowships, the better magazines, etc.). The question is whether she has gained too much for her own good...
...cultists of the old guard may deplore the trend-on the ground that it threatens, sooner or later, to take all the amazement out of the amazing. But it will be all right with most book publishers. Though the space-opera formula seems to work well at the pulp level, experimenting publishers have generally had to be content with sales of around 5,000 when such yarns are peddled as honest-to-goodness books. Just maybe the new trend will catch more readers...