career – Pulp & Pep

Distracted Lesbians with Cameras

Monica — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:44:58 +0000

One of my pet peeves about lesbian pulp fiction is how little attention the lesbians pay to career advancement. They have no work ethic — they’re always coming in late to the office in the morning or taking a sick day to nurse their hangovers. I think Beebo Brinker delivers less than a dozen pizzas in the course of her supposed pizza-delivery job. Sometimes I finish a book, still not sure how the tormented lesbian was managing to pay the rent.

Paula Christian’s books are an exception. The career is always part of the story, whether the heroine is a stewardess, a writer, or a photographer as in the novel … Read more

Shutterbugs: Katie and Her Camera and Sharon James, Freelance Photographer

Monica — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:17:42 +0000

Katie And Her Camera (1955, Lois Hobart)

The Story: Dad has died and Katie has to get a job in order to finish college (a weak or absent patriarch is always a good excuse for a career). Inexperienced Katie applies for a part-time job as assistant to photographer Rolfe Esperson, who not only hires her but proceeds to teach her everything he knows, loans her his equipment, and pays her to boot. At one point he says she looks worn out and gives her a hundred dollars with instructions to go on a shopping spree.

My kind of boss!

Katie takes to photography like a duck to water and by … Read more