A form of literature that originated in 1930's magazines. It features relatively simplistic and often lurid tales, with much action and little psychological thrills.
1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed of rough, unfinished paper.
the last novel charles bukowski wrote. next to ham on rye, it represents bukowski at his best. hilarious, subversive of it's genre, spiritual (for bukowski), and maybe his best realized metaphor.