Question 808

These were inexpensive _____ magazines, published from 1896 through the 1950s. A typical one magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long and printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.

The name comes from the cheap wood ____ paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on better paper were called "glossies" or "slicks." In their first decades, they were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. Although many respected writers wrote for these, they are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. What literary term?

Answer:Pulp fiction/pulp magazines