lesbian pulp fiction katherine v forrest

However, it provides a glimpse into queer life in that era. Of course, you're reading pieces from the 50s and 60s, so there is definitely going to be problematic content and cringy content. However, the individual novel excerpts were pretty wonderful. I wish that Forrest had also done that, as you only get the back cover copy and then you get dropped into a random scene from the book, so sometimes I felt quite lost. Also, the book covers are reproduced, but extremely small and low quality, which I don't understand - if you're going to bother getting the rights to reproduce the covers, why not reproduce them well? And I preferred how Bronski summarized the novels before each excerpt. words would be split up with spaces in the middle for some reason.

I have a couple nitpicks about the production of this collection, but not the actual excerpts, which are terrific and added a whole slew of books to my TBR!Īs for the book itself, I read the eBook version and there were quite a number of typographical (or maybe formatting?) errors, e.g. Forrest's book features excerpts from a swathe of lesbian pulp novels from the 1950s and 60s. Like Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps, Katherine V. I'm so glad I finally read it now! I wish I'd read it then! This was so much fun. I remember seeing this in bookstores back around 2007-ish? (along with The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories), and wanting to buy it back then, but I was with a roommate and still closeted.

Lesbian pulp fiction katherine v forrest