Sex and Death: Interwar French Pulps

Curated by Luc Sante, May 12-August 4, 2012  On View at the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrines. The populist avant-garde. In Paris in the 1920s and ’30s, highbrow and lowbrow met on the terrain of pulp publishing. Crime tabloids, skin magazines, and the flimsy pamphlets called ‘train-station novels’ were eye-catching and breathlessly modern. Employing … Continue reading Sex and Death: Interwar French Pulps