pep – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:03:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Activist Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2017/10/29/activist-pep/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2017/10/29/activist-pep/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:55:53 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=657 There’s a treasured shelf in my collection of mid-century teen fiction and career girl books. It holds those rare voumes in which the burgeoning civil rights movement of the sixties collides with the whitebread high school fantasies of the fifties to form a schizophrenic hybrid of the malt shoppe romance and the problem novel. It’s culture clash, Y-Teen style.

Titles include Julie’s Heritage (a black high school girl grapples with racism and dating), Why Did You Go to College Linda Warren? (good-girl Linda gets embroiled with anti-war activists during her first year of college), Lots of Love, Lucinda (Corry’s white family invites a black student from the south to stay … Read more

]]> https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2017/10/29/activist-pep/feed/ 4 657 Joe Bonomo’s Wonderful World https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/04/12/joe-bonomos-wonderful-world/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/04/12/joe-bonomos-wonderful-world/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:05:57 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=129 I am a fortunate girl. I have friends in high places, who, when they see certain items, divert them from their original path and point them towards me.

This is what happened the other night when I was presented with the works of Joe Bonomo. I caught my breath when I first saw the little gold box. My eyes grew round as I opened it up and extracted the twelve little booklets. My jaw dropped as I began to read. I knew that hours of amusement lay ahead.

Who is Joe? I don’t know, except that he is an international authority on all sorts of subjects and has provided in … Read more

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