Hughes was also a poet, and The New Republic called "In a Lonely Place" "a latter-day 'Crime and Punishment.' " In an afterword, Lisa Maria Hogeland, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, notes that "Lonely Place" is one of many pulps about returning war veterans with adjustment problems.
It's a device often used for queasy scares in pulp stories about twins.
In 1937 Ms. Stevenson was dating Clark Andrews, a radio producer working on "The Shadow," an adaptation of pulp novels about a secret avenger.
Salter protests that, up to this point, he had no ambitions to be a writer and had grown up unbookishly, reading pulp magazines about aviation.
Bug (written by August: Osage County author Tracy Letts) was a taut and twisted motel-room nightmare; Killer Joe (Letts again) a turbulent pulp thriller about crime, compromise and punishment in a Texas trailer park.
Lucas once displayed a cigarette-wrapped motorbike helmet on a burnt-out armchair, an image that made you think of kids killed on motorbikes and their granddads going up in smoke - a desolate pulp fiction about sex, death and class.
This demi-decade was the period in which this film-maker left behind his enfant terrible status and became almost an elder statesman: his pulp satire about slavery was a brilliant and dizzying adventure showing no one can deliver the crazy opiate of cinema like Tarantino.
Even devotees of molten chocolate cake might be surprised to see the source of their pleasure: a wrinkly pod the size of a football that contains sweet pulp and about 40 bitter beans the size of almonds, enough to make 10 milk chocolate bars.
The particle concentration in the pulp was about 1% by weight.
