Candace Bushnell – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Single Girl Geneaology https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/09/02/single-girl-geneaology/ Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:05:48 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=183 The recent death of Helen Gurley Brown has had me dusting off my copy of Sex and the Single Girl for yet another pleasurable reread. It’s always a happy experience to leaf through my disintegrating paperback, contemplating the advice to drink my “serenity cocktail” on one page (among the many other things HGB anticipated was the jamba juice craze) and wear man-pleasing “slinky black” the next. As good friend and fellow-writer Lynn Peril puts it, “She was so right — and she was so wrong!”

Anyone in the know now knows that Madmen’s Peggy bears more than a passing resemblance to HGB, who worked as a secretary for Don Belding, … Read more

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