Reimagines mid-century lesbian pulp fiction through bold, modern stories that blend romance, vengeance, and melodrama, pairing revived classics with new tales that explore queer identity, desire, and subversion with dark humor, emotional intensity and unapologetic flair. Original.
"An anthology of reinvented queer pulp fiction for the contemporary era. This collection includes revived classics from Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Dunbar-Nelson as well as new stories from writers including Sarah Schulman, Grace Byron, and Shamim Sharif"-- Provided by publisher.
A collection of reinvented queer pulp fiction by writers like Sarah Schulman and Lorraine Hansberry that’s so edgy it draws blood.
Lesbian pulp fiction thrived in the oppressive 1950s, telling subversive stories of lonely sapphic women who find connection, passion, and revenge. In The New Lesbian Pulp, editors Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz revive the genre for today, layering nuance into classic tropes while dialing up the melodrama, romantic peril, and collateral damage.
In these pages—which pair revived classics from Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Dunbar Nelson with new stories from Sarah Schulman, Grace Byron, Shamim Sharif, and more—vigilante lesbians gather roadkill for revenge, a woman and her former high school bully hook up and commit murder, Brooklyn witches cruise kink parties for human sacrifice, and a sinister kidnapping goes horribly wrong (or horribly right).
Here, gathered just for you, are some of today’s best lesbian pulp stories. Don’t be afraid. Pick them up.
