By Paula Rabinowitz
ISBN-10: 1322116903
ISBN-13: 9781322116907
ISBN-10: 1400865298
ISBN-13: 9781400865291
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These cheap twenty-five-cent books found in bus and train stations, soda fountains and candy stores, drugstores and newspaper kiosks called out to a mobile population of workingmen and women commuting on trolleys and subways to work in midsize cities, or crisscrossing the country as traveling salesmen or leisured vacationers. Their lurid, colorful covers telegraphed stories of sex and violence that traversed class and racial boundaries. Small enough to be tucked into a breast pocket or handbag and read at a lunch counter or on the streetcar, the more risqué and daring books could be hidden and read late into the night.
It’s a many-hydra-headed beast, opening to scrutiny a history of reading in modernist America. Communities of readers developed literally out of the pockets and pocketbooks of Americans. Pulp’s materials and institutions helped determine the trajectory of modern life for the rest of the American Century and on into our postmodernist moment of the ostensibly paperless office and e-book. . —Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1975) The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
Their pervasiveness achieved a kind of blanketing of culture that brought the words of thinkers and writers of every stripe into a vibrant relationship, through intense visual and linguistic stimulation, with an enormous mass of people. Paperbacks linked objects and ideas to bodies, brought intimate longing and fear into public view, and circulated social experiences into the privacy of one’s home and one’s head. Pulps were precursors, imagining their own demise; they were also, paradoxically, bulwarks against it.
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