![]() Of course, when it comes to pulp, appearances can be deceiving. noir novel “No Good From a Corpse,” wrote her way into a 35-year screenwriting career (“The Big Sleep,” co-written with William Faulkner “The Empire Strikes Back”). ![]() As a result, perhaps, only a few women have ever cracked the pulp canon, among them Patricia Highsmith, whose Ripley books showcase a new kind of sociopath, and Leigh Brackett, who, with the publication of the 1944 L.A. This is as fundamental to the genre as its edge of moral ambiguity. In such a landscape - of fistfights and gin joints, gats and gams and smoky neon midnights - women exist primarily as temptresses, as dangerous and unreliable femmes fatales. ![]() Pulp fiction has always been a male-dominated genre, the realm of the tough-guy writer, from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to more modern, “neo-noir” practitioners like Walter Mosley or James Ellroy. ![]()
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