You're probably familiar with the term "pulp fiction," referring to books printed on cheap "pulp" paper with covers featuring sexy illustrations of bombshells and studs. Originating in the first ...

The Wolfsonian in Miami Beach is exploring pulp fiction cover art from the 1920s to 1950s, and the social issues embedded in the lurid imagery.

Pulp: A collectors book of Australian pulp fiction covers By Toni Johnson-Woods National Library of Australia, $24.95 The wide world: True adventures for men Edited by Paul Safont Macmillan, $35 ...

You’ve probably seen some of the colorful, abstract book cover art of Richard Powers before, and marveled at how far it pushes the envelope of representational art. How alien it looks. Over at ...

Illustrator and painter Astor Alexander turned three iconic Nintendo games into pulp fiction book covers this month. The works seem to be a return to something he played around with last year when ...

“ Spillane: The King of Pulp Fiction” covers his fascinating life, from his upbringing and service as a pilot in World War II to his progression from comic book writer to best-selling crime ...

C heap paperback books are like sex: They claim attention, elicit memories good and bad, and get talked about endlessly. The mid-20th century was the era of pulp, which landed in America in 1939 ...

Thank you, Jerry Saltz, for sharing this classic pulp fiction book cover on Twitter. It really puts art school into a real context. It’s funny to laugh at this silly stereotype in retrospect ...

The local used book stores had a huge […] Datajunkie has posted an astonishing collection of over 50 covers from the beautiful 1930's pulp Astounding Science Fiction.