"Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction" is Scott McCracken's foundational academic survey of how popular genres are read, studied, and theorized. Published by Manchester University Press, the book moves through bestsellers, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction, and horror in turn, mapping the major critical traditions that have grown up around each. McCracken's argument is that popular fiction is not a residual category waiting to be elevated — it is the central form through which most r...