Pulp Fiction
When I say pulp fiction, I mean the mass-produced, easy-to-read books: not the movie. The kind of stuff that became popular after printing became a thing and people became more and more literate. It spans genres and eras. Louis L'Amour, Mickey Spillane, Edgar Rice Burroughs...that kind of stuff. I love it! Sure, I read lots of historical non-fiction stuff and have read plenty of the classics of high literature, but I find great joy in pulp fiction. It takes me back to a simpler time when I was a kid. A time without the internet and TV subscriptions, when light reading was the way to zone out. Part of it, too, was that they relied on simple story telling, not fancy points of view and narrative. We had those kinds of books at my house and I ate them up. They were and are simply fun and relaxing. Then I started thinking about how pulp fiction has impacted my writing. Now they call it "Genre Fiction" or a "Beach Read," but a rose by any other name would smell as s...
