July 28, 2000
'Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines'
Erin A. Smith says she's heard the question over and over: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a genre like this?" The genre? The pulps. Hard-boiled fiction published from the 1920's through the 1940's in magazines nicknamed for their rough, untrimmed wood-pulp paper.
She begins Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines (Temple University Press) by describing how she discovered pulp detective fiction through feminist rewritings of the genre from the 1980's.
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