Caspary – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:09:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Career Girls, 1942 Style https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/01/26/career-girls-1942-style/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:29:26 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=28 There was a double feature playing a few nights ago, Laura and Bedelia, both based on books by Vera Caspary. I was so exhausted from the grueling Noir City Film Festival pace (four movies on Saturday) that I thought I’d skip the movie version of Laura (which I’ve seen more times than I can remember) and read the book instead.

Caspary wrote Laura in 1942, and the eponymous heroine is a curtain opener for the career girls who would later flood the fiction market. In 1943 the New York Times called this story of an advertising executive who is presumed murdered and then turns up alive and becomes a … Read more

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