Shelf Love: romance novel discourse
Andrea MartucciA podcast & community discussing romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Andrea Martucci (she/her)
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Collecting the Romance from Janice Radway's Reading the Romance
About 18 months ago, I introduced “Romance Novel Collection,” a sub-channel within Shelf Love:
Romance Novel Collection will focus on the what, why, and how of romance collections — the goal of this sub-publication is to build a communit...
Condoms in Romance: Tracking Down Claims About Firsts
Breaking news: there’s an earlier “first-known” mention of condom usage in contemporary romance. (Maybe “first-known” abortion mention on page as well!)
The current story is that Elda Minger’s Untamed Heart, published in 1983, was the “Fir...
I Want You (to Want Me) So Badly
Betty Draper annoyed the crap out of me when I first watched Mad Men. No matter how badly Don behaved, I couldn’t help but feel contempt for Betty. Not pity: Contempt.
Upon a recent rewatch, I couldn’t stop thinking about one exchange betw...
Why Did Lisa Kleypas Revise the Wallflower Books?
Did you know that Lisa Kleypas revised the text of her Wallflower books a few years ago, removing entire scenes? And that some of those scenes are the ones that longtime fans may consider some of their favorites?
In an upcoming episode of...
Putting Romance Book Sales Data in Perspective
You know those factoids that put something into perspective, like how Cleopatra lived closer to our present time and the first moon landing than when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built?
Perspective can be revealing, sometimes shocking, a...
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Andrea Martucci writes and talks about romance novels and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host of Shelf Love Podcast/Substack.
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