On 10 June 2003, Mario Taboada wrote:
: But why did he include Ross Macdonald in a list of
pulp
: writers? He doesn't really belong there. Of course John
D.
: does belong, and quite prominently.
:
: How does he define "pulp writer"?
In the broad, non-magazine sense that's more common to the
average person. He says about "pulp:" "the word came to have
an expanded meaning both categoric and aesthetic: pulp as a
genus of imaginative reading matter distinguished by mass
production, affordability, an intended audience of common as
opposed to elite readers, a dependence on formula and genre;
and pulp as a literature aimed at the pleasure centres of the
reader, primarily concerned with sensation and escape,
variously intended to excite, astonish, or arouse."
He also says he intentionally left out some major writers so
he'd have space to cover some lesser-known ones. He'd get
some arguments over any absences, but leaving out John D.
MacDonald is going too far.
Bill
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