Nonna – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:14:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 The Queen of Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/06/13/the-queen-of-pulp/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2014/06/13/the-queen-of-pulp/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2014 07:20:48 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=463 Once upon a time I was attempting to summarize my books for a friend of my brother’s while my niece and the friend’s two kids ran around my brother’s living room wreaking havoc.

In the midst of my long-winded dissertation on lesbian pulp fiction, its historical context, my attempts to reimagine it, etc, my brother looked up from his iPhone and interrupted.

“Actually, they’re like these Beany Malone books we read when we were kids.”

Busted!

Of course my brother would be the one to out me. As a former member of the Beany Malone fan club (one meeting, one newsletter, six members all bearing the same last name) he … Read more

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