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Queer pulp
perverted passions from the golden age of the paperback
By Stryker, Susan
- ISBN
- 978-0-81183-020-1
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2001
This pair of paeans to the paperback offers two diverse focuses, with some crossover. Culture historian Lupoff's heavily illustrated account traces the paperback's roots to the 1800s but focuses primarily on the era from 1920 onward, with emphasis on the many players who took the penny dreadful and morphed it into a legitimate publishing form to create empires. Stryker, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical So...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
