Ann Bannon – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:47:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 The Man Who Would Be Lesbian https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/09/23/the-man-who-would-be-lesbian/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/09/23/the-man-who-would-be-lesbian/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:11:43 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=551 69 Barrow Street, by Lawrence Block writing as Sheldon Lord, Tower, 1959

Cover Line: “Their Love was Right! But Their Sex Was Wrong!”

We’ve all known them: the men who long to be lesbians. in the days before they found an outlet for their frustrated desires by dominating the discussions in women studies classes with passionate paeans to Monique Wittig, they wrote lesbian pulp.

Does Lawrence Block belong to this esoteric tribe? One thing is for sure: before becoming an Edgar Award-winning mystery author, Block wrote an awful lot of lesbian pulp. Sure, I realize that many male writers paid their dues in this grove of the pulp jungle, … Read more

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Classic Line: “All the dormant fires of her younger days had sprung to life and they burned in her still, tempting her, torturing her until she knew she would have to find release somewhere or die of it.”

It took me many years to appreciate Ann Bannon’s contribution to lesbian literature. Bannon wrote five pulps between 1957 and 1962, linked novels that tell the intertwined, melodramatic adventures of Laura, Beth, and Beebo. The books made her the community’s best known lesbian pulp writer, and an acquaintance with her books is as much a requirement for lesbians as is … Read more

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