Top 6 best pulp book 2019
Finding the best pulp book suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
Best pulp book
1. Pulp
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In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. Its not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herselfand Marieto a danger all too real.Sixty-two years later, Abby Zimet cant stop thinking about her senior project and its subjectclassic 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. Between the pages of her favorite book, the stresses of Abbys own life are lost to the fictional hopes, desires and tragedies of the characters shes reading about. She feels especially connected to one author, a woman who wrote under the pseudonym Marian Love, and becomes determined to track her down and discover her true identity.
In this novel told in dual narratives, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far weve come and how much farther we have to go.
2. Pulp
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Ecco PressDescription
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
3. The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
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Vintage; Reprint edition (November 6, 2007)The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
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The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.
Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight traina bullet couldnt pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.
Including:
Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.
Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel,
one of the masters of the form.
A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.
Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many
many more of whom youve probably never heard.
Three deadly sectionsThe Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dameswith three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben,
Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman
Featuring:
Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.
A kid so smarthell die of it.
A soft-hearted loan sharks legman learningthe hard waynever to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.
The uncanny Moon Man and his mad-money victims.
4. The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History
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IDWDescription
Experts in the ten major Pulp genres, from action Pulps to spicy Pulps and more, chart for the first time the complete history of Pulp magazinesthe stories and their writers, the graphics and their artists, and, of course, the publishers, their market, and readers.Each chapter in the book, which is illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best Pulp graphics (many from the editors collectionsamong the worlds largest) is organized in a clear and accessible way, starting with an introductory overview of the genre, followed by a selection of the best covers and interior graphics, organized chronologically through the chapter. All images are fully captioned (many are in essence "nutshell" histories in themselves). Two special features in each chapter focus on topics of particular interest (such as extended profiles of Daisy Bacon, Pulp author and editor of Love Story, the hugely successful romance Pulp, and of Harry Steeger, co-founder of Popular Publications in 1930 and originator of the "Shudder Pulp" genre).
With an overall introduction on "The Birth of the Pulps" by Doug Ellis, and with two additional chapters focusing on the great Pulp writers and the great Pulp artists, The Art of the Pulps covers every aspect of this fascinating genre; it is the first definitive visual history of the Pulps.
"The Art of the Pulps is a must for any pulp fans, anywhere." - LOCUS Magazine
Winner of the 2018 LOCUS Award for Best Art Book
5. Handbook For Pulp and Paper Technologists (The SMOOK Book), Fourth Edition
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Handbook For Pulp and Paper Technologists (The SMOOK Book), Fourth Edition The Handbook For Pulp and Paper Technologists (The SMOOK Book), is by far the best-selling text to introduce the entire technology of pulp and paper manufacture. The major objective of the fourth edition was to produce a readable, up-to-date, comprehensive textbook. The Fourth edition features include: 13 Years in the making Approximately 90 new illustrations Updated chapters Discusses latest technology Chapters have been altered materially to reflect the latest technology and the current state of the North American industry. The most significant changes occur in the areas of Wood and Chip Handling (Chapter 3), Mechanical Pulping (Chapter 5), Recycled Fiber (Chapter 14), Non-fibrous Additives (Chapter 15) and Surface Treatments (Chapter 18). The book features 27 chapters covering all aspects of pulping and papermaking. Hundreds of illustrations, charts and tables help the reader grasp the concepts being presented.6. Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
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