Pulp Refers to Paper, Not What's Printed on It
Published: June 8, 1997
To the Editor:
Your article ''Noir York'' (May 11) called ''Kill Kill Faster Faster'' by Joel Rose ''a pulp novel.'' This is wrong. As a hardcover book, it is neither a pulp novel nor a reprint of a pulp novel. The term ''pulp'' refers to the cheap paper the old pulp magazines were printed on. It doesn't mean anything else. I think you meant to use the word ''potboiler.''