Barbara Deming – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:07:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Obsessive Lesbian Patterns https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/03/27/obsessive-lesbian-patterns/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/03/27/obsessive-lesbian-patterns/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:33:53 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=86 From 1942 to 1944, Barbara Deming worked for the Library of Congress as a film analyst.  Her job was to go to the movies and take detailed notes about what she watched. By her own account, she saw a quarter of all the Hollywood films released those three years.

In her youth, Deming dated Lotte Lenya and had a long-term relationship with Mary Meigs, If you’re thinking she was part of the triangle that Meigs wrote about in Medusa Head, no, she was in the earlier triangle, the one that ended with Deming and Meigs splitting up and Meigs going off with Marie-Claire Blais to have the second… Read more

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