Love Is Where You Find It – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:44:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Distracted Lesbians with Cameras https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/03/04/distracted-lesbians-with-cameras/ Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:44:58 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=66 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

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