I went into the house to fetch the required sum, and, by some means I cannot explain, got to work again upon the latest potboiler.
"Mr. Punch in Bohemia"
Various
His customers loved his little talks, loved the way he could wax rhapsodic about the tortured prose in a Victorian potboiler, the nearly erotic curve of a beat-up old table leg, the voluminous cuffs of an embroidered silk smoking jacket.
"Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"
Cory Doctorow