Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2011
Deadline for final essays: June 15, 2011
Novels known collectively as “out gay pulp” — paperback originals published with accelerating frequency in the 1960s—have received increasing attention, from popular collections like John Preston’s Flesh and the Word, Michael Bronski’s Pulp Friction and Susan Stryker’s Queer Pulp to the circulation of pulp covers in postcards, address books, and posters. Scholarly attention to this phenomenon has been more sporadic; an excellent bibliography by Tom Norman, essays by David Bergman and John Howard, and those by the various contributors to The Golden Age of Gay Fiction haven’t yet spurred a deeper, more engaged critical interest. Sixties paperback originals have been seen as quirky cultural anomalies or even insignificant pornographic outpouring rather than a significant literary and cultural intervention.