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9 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
You know what would be a great way for an outfit like @Slate to write about romance? Pair a romance reader with a romance skeptic, have the reader curate a novel for the skeptic to read, and run the conversation that ensues.
I've read a lot of romance novels for work and a fair number for fun, and you know what? The genre is VAST.
My favorite romance writer mostly sold her books to male-oriented pulp imprints, but the majority of them were lesbian romances set in the world of publishing and the arts in early-1960s Manhattan. And they're AMAZING.
(The writer in the above tweet is Sally Singer. She wrote under a bunch of names, but her lesbian pulp was mostly published as March Hastings.)
Be warned, though: Not every March Hastings novel is a Sally Singer novel—the publishers recycled the nom de plume. At least I assume so, on the basis of the very het pulp book published under her name that takes place in the world of amateur dirtbike racing.

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