Literature that thrills.

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• The New Gossip Novels Just asking: What do Page Six veterans think they can do for literature?
  Troy Patterson May 26, 2006
  
• Pulp Valentine Eric Ambler and the invention of the spy novel.
  Stephen Metcalf May 25, 2006
  
• The Pulp Canon Lurid new covers for The Iliad, Little Women, and other classics.
  May 25, 2006
  
• Pulp Valentine My love affair with Mildred Pierce.
  Laura Lippman May 25, 2006
  
• Pulp Valentine Erskine Caldwell's lurid vision of the American South.
  Dwight Garner May 24, 2006
  
• Purloined Poe Fact is invading fiction.
  Christopher Benfey May 24, 2006
  
• Pulp Valentine Donald Westlake's Parker novels are a genre of their own.
  John Banville May 24, 2006
  
• Pulp Valentine Patricia Highsmith's erotic lesbian thriller.
  Terry Castle May 23, 2006
  
• Requiem for Pulp Fiction The bygone days of seedy literature.
  Bryan Curtis May 23, 2006
  
• Cool Books for Hot Weather It's Pulp Fiction week at Slate.
  May 23, 2006
  
• My Favorite Beach Book What Scott Turow, Joyce Carol Oates, and Michael Connelly read on vacation.
  May 23, 2006