S02.45: Vivian Stephens' Acquisitions with librarian Steve Ammidown
It felt fitting that our final episode of Season 2\u2014during which we celebrated so many of the vintage romances that blooded us\u2014would be with someone we could fully geek out with! We are thrilled to have Steve Ammidown, romance nerd and archivist at the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, with us today to talk about Vivian Stephens and early category romances. To prepare, all three of us read some of the earliest American category romances, and wow were they a ride! We\u2019re talking women who work, marriage in romance, older heroines, the impact of Vietnam on 1980s romances, and more. Strap in!