The name "pulp" comes from the cheap wood pulp paper on which such magazines were printed.意思是这种小说原来是印在廉价的木浆纸上的,所以叫pulp,而这种小说一般面向成年人,所以才衍生为低俗小说的代称了.
这个问题问反了吧，先有的pulp fiction，然后翻译成低俗小说……
