It’s pulp fiction week

Slate has a slew of articles devoted to the best and brightest of pulp fiction, old and new. Check out:

• The reading lists of Michael Connelly, Scott Turow & Joyce Carol Oates
• John Banville on Richard Stark’s Parker novels
• Bryan Curtis’s Requiem for Pulp Fiction
• Terry Castle on Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian novel
• Dwight Garner on Erskine Caldwell

And much more to come over the course of the week.