“In order to shut up Senator McCarthy and all of the morality cops, they had to be punished,” Ann Bannon, a former sorority girl who began her pulp career with the bleak college coming out novel Odd Girl Out (1957), recalled in 2012. The way these stories pondered hands and lips - and illustrated their touch - was only permitted if the characters were eventually put in their place. At its height in popularity in the 50s and 60s, pulp, like so many girly things, was equally devoured, ridiculed, and hit with the book. It still does, at least where I’m concerned. Even though pulp novels didn’t have to play by the basic rules of copyediting or treat the English language with a lick of decency, the form had enough power to get a rise out of people.
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