American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes. –a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, a