He describes how he was later working as a reviewer and picked up a book from a box a publisher sent him. One was the science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who went undercover and joined a street gang as research for more than 100 stories and his 1958 debut novel. But here and there I came across someone churning out quick books for cash who went on to make a more respectable name for himself. Many of these books would make even Quentin Tarantino cringe, I suspect: they sound truly awful. Youthsploitation sold, and went on selling for decades, until film and TV took over as the primary entertainments, and until the rise of young-adult literature, when teenage rebels were written about in an altogether more sympathetic way.īut before that there was a pulp procession of shocking kids: beatniks, hippies (best of all, murderous hippies), bikie gangs, rock stars, punks, skinheads and James Bond-style surfer spies. What was once reviled as rubbishy reading is now collected, curated and revered as retro chic. I've been having huge fun reading about JD fiction and looking at the outrageously titillating covers in Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats, an anthology edited by two Australians, Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette.
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