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Isn’t pulp fiction by definition low quality?

• mrob 7y ago
  Pulp fiction just means works published in pulp magazines or similarly disreputable publications. Some was bad, some was great. Many acclaimed authors wrote for the pulps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine#Authors_featured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine#Authors_featured
  • Phillipharryt 7y ago
    In your very own link it says the term is used to refer to "run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature".
    • morelisp 7y ago
      Pulp is, by definition, material printed in cheap wood pulp magazines. Pulp is, by association, low-quality writing. Pulp is also, by allusion, a particular genre/structure mirroring the dominant topics and styles of the original magazines - regardless of its quality.