Slate magazine commissioned, as part of its Pulp Fiction week, a set of new covers of six classic novels in the mode of the pulp newsstand novels of the mid 20th Century. The art of this genre is so interesting in its depiction of women, good vs. evil, and intensification/downplay that
some could be studied as cultural artifacts.
But the Slate covers are fantastic. I think the cover for The Iliad is best, and the Animal Farm edition would be guaranteed to make nearly every freshman boy avoid standing up. I can only imagine what some of our other literature might have as a pulp cover.
Great stuff.
-- Seattle
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We can only wonder what they would've made for "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
You are a sick, sick man, Logan.
You too, cloke.
"Oedipus Rex"? I don't know if I could even handle that cover.
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