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“Verity” is trashy fun through and through, and doesn’t try to elevate itself past that pulpy baseline.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
It doesn’t look particularly good, but for a pulpy, propulsive action series, it may have potential.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Like a movie DJ, Kandhari is flexing a pulpy mood of big-city dislocation, building a trippy, jarring and blackly funny experience out of a city’s stray colors, sounds and personalities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Bent steel beams and the pulpy ends of impossibly twisted floors are all that remain.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
If the tone in this 1950s-set romantic drama is more genteel than in the Hitchcockian, far pulpier “Eileen,” they have many similarities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Room did that expertly, but The Family is pulpier.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2016
He likes to experiment with writing styles and readers may have to pause and think more than they do with pulpier fare.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
Conspiracy theories, elaborate cover-ups and paranoia are recurring threads in his work, from his acclaimed early novels, like “The Crying of Lot 49,” to more recent, pulpier books, like “Inherent Vice” and “Bleeding Edge.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2015
I can see what they have done to Billy already; he's getting pulpier every day, and I don't believe his brain would ever work if I didn't keep stirring it up.
From The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
This textured NYC thriller has the pulpiest of set-ups: a young Chinese girl is lost and alone on the streets, pursued by the Triads and crooked cops.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019
But “Battlefield Earth” is also an incredibly exciting book, pulp of the pulpiest order.
From Salon ● May 24, 2012
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