research – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 DIY Cheesecake https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2013/01/07/diy-cheesecake/ Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:00:30 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=313 How I Photograph Myself, by Bunny Yeager, 1964

I pulled this gem from the SFPL’s 3rd floor page desk, which turned out to be quite a production. Apparently the book could only be looked at in a certain spot, a particular table next to the Art and Music reference desk, under the eagle eye of the reference librarian. I speculated it might be because Bunny Yeager’s photographs—pin-ups, cheesecake, calendar art—fell into some theft vulnerability category the librarians have made up. After all, Bunny Yeager is best known for her Betty Page photos, and Betty Page has quite the cult following, what with bio-pic, books, and a store on Haight … Read more

]]> 313 Unionizing Lesbians! https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/10/12/unionizing-lesbians/ Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:30:47 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=257 Ah the joys of research. Mystery author Sara Gran was once asked at a reading “how much research should a writer do?” Her answer: you can never do enough, basically research until you run out of steam or time. This is the opposite of the usual pragmatic advice that writers should do the bare minimum of research necessary to make their fiction convincing. I was delighted to hear someone else validate what has always been my preferred approach.

For me, writing lesbian pulp parodies is really an excuse to read old Teen magazines, Girl Scout Handbooks, Sears Catalogs, and of course The Ladder, the newsletter of the Daughters of … Read more

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