For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
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Life is moving really fast for the Nympho Librarian right now but I’ve managed to eke out another chunk of Satan Was a Lesbian. Enjoy!
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Close up color photo of Alonso with Cleopatra-style hair and smoky eyes
Black and white photo of Alonso in long sleeved shirt and bare legs
Black and white photo of Alonso in showgirl bikini and feathers
Color pin-up style photo of Alonso in striped tank top and slacks
More photos of Chelo Alonso, who must have inspired a thousand pulp fever dream fantasies.
Black and white photo of Chelo Alonso in a showgirl costume: spangled bikini, tons of jewels and feathers sprouting from her butt, huge headpiece, shady af side-eye.
Stripper Dyke by Anita Wright. Illustrated cover of showgirl in similar costume and pose as in the other photo.
Someone on Reddit posted this picture of Cuban star of Italian films Chelo Alonso and I immediately thought “that’s stripper dyke!”
Thank you!
Some of it is hunting through my own shelves because I definitely have a few of these!
If you are that publisher out there, CALL ME! I want to edit and introduce these for new audiences!
Still from Who killed Teddy Bear? Black and white. A row of sleazy paperbacks with titles such as Lust Farm, Flesh Game, and Shame Mate.
I hope to get around to writing about this, one of my favorite movies of all time, on my blog soon. Sal Mineo as a peeping Tom (filmed with an unholy obsessive Queer Gaze), Juliet Prowse as a hopeful dancer, Elaine Stritch as a predatory lesbian. It is inundated with references to sleaze publishing
Dance Hall Dyke by Toni Adler. “The vicious jungle of lesbian lures… the fickle and the fake screaming, the obscenity of their passions, while tender lovers cry for understanding.” Cover shows two lesbian couples dancing.
Still from Who killed Teddy Bear? Black and white. A hand reaches for a paperback on a shelf that includes the titles Lust Run, Sin Ring, and Dance Hall Dyke.
Still from Who killed Teddy Bear? Black and white. Close up of Sal Mineo in Times Square sex shop.
The newly restored edition of Who Killed Teddy Bear?, the 1965 film that epitomizes the sleazy pulp paperback era, includes an extended cut of the scene where Sal Mineo browses a Times Square bookshop. Obviously I must acquire all the titles.
NYT: Paula Doress-Worters, an Author of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ Dies at 87
By Penelope Green
She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women.
Gift link!
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I like to use the word “collection” as broadly as possible to encourage people to collect! Doesn’t have to be fancypants!
You have a beautiful collection!
Traditionally mass market paperbacks have retailed at about the same as one hour of minimum wage work. These retail at $17.99, which is what minimum wage SHOULD be (at least) if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation. So I think the price is right but our wages aren’t.
Traditionally mass market paperbacks have retailed at about the same as one hour of minimum wage work. These retail at $17.99, which is what minimum wage SHOULD be (at least) if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation. So I think the price is right but our wages aren’t.
“From the moment when somebody invented a way of duplicating books from moveable type, the mass-produced sixpenny became inevitable.” —Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, 1938. (Le livre de poche est mort. Vive le livre de poche)
I think they’re adorable! Definitely going to buy some
As for “nomad books,” pocket-sized paperbacks from HarperCollins. Ad shows a white woman putting a book in her pocket
I was wondering how long after “the death of the paperback” was announced that we would see someone trying to reinvent the concept of pocket-sized books. Took about 5 minutes. #LivingBookHistory
Two copies of the book Inquest by Milton K Ozaki. Cover shows a defiant young white woman with a ponytail and hands on hips. A cop is grabbing her arm. One copy has been defaced. The woman has a mask and ACAB on her sweat. Above her a Malcolm X quote has been penciled in: “if someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again”
Last year I found shoddy duplicate paperbacks in my collection and let students deface, destroy, and make art out of them (part of my ongoing The Book as Trash manifesto). I forgot that I did this one and it amused me this morning when I found it hiding on my shelf.
I feel like The Fiend is her masterpiece at her full maturity as a writer but I’ve loved every one that I’ve read. She’s so under appreciated!
A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.
Happy International Women's Day!
Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.
"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."
*very damn near only because I personally wanted more sex scenes, more explicit sex, messier sex, etc. But I can always find decent smut—you can’t find characters and flawless banter like this every day. If you have ever been a hopeless shipper of any sci-fi show, this is for you.
Star shipped by Cat Sebastian. Comic book style art of two white men about to kiss on a tv sound stage.
I’ve been kind of hostilely off romance lately—I just get violent toward hopeful genres in a hopeless world. But I should have known that if anyone could bring me back, it would be Cat Sebastian. This book is very damn near* perfect—or reminded me that at least a few romances out there are for me
It is! He wrote tons of pulps while he wasn’t busy being a cinematic genius.
Killer in Drag by Edward D. Wood Jr. cover shows a man asleep or dead on a bed and a redheaded woman in black underwear sitting next to him holding a gun.
Death of a Transvestite by Ed Wood Jr. cover shows black and white photo of an AMAB person wearing a black bra, underwear, stockings and garters. Her eyes are blacked out/censored. In the background, a door is open to reveal the electric chair bathed in yellow light.
I am goofy, loopy, over the moon to now own these. There is simply no reason to work hard other than to earn money to buy expensive trash.
Also, no these are not AI! They are real artists, all amazing and all with an online presence.
1) Jessine Hein (on Instagram)
2) Austin Drake (bottlecap_creative on Etsy)
3) Jenifer Prince (on Instagram)
All contemporary. And all have actual proper—and even credited!—cover artists! One trend I love is authors seeking out their own cover artists through social media. It’s great to see cool young artists get this kind of break as well.
