S02.45: Vivian Stephens' Acquisitions with librarian Steve Ammidown

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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It felt fitting that our final episode of Season 2—during which we celebrated so many of the vintage romances that blooded us—would 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’re talking women who work, marriage in romance, older heroines, the impact of Vietnam on 1980s romances, and more. Strap in!

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0:00.0	Well, it is, it's bananas over here.
0:05.0	This is like beyond five bananas.
0:08.0	This is like beyond five bananas.
0:11.0	This is like the entire grocery store aisle of bananas, plus a
0:14.4	pudding and some vanilla wafers. I thought that okay when we did old school
0:19.8	categories before that felt bananas, But now this today it's really we have a lot to talk
0:26.3	about. Everyone welcome to Fated mates. I'm Sarah McClain. I write romance novels and I read romance novels.
0:34.4	I'm Jen Procup. I'm a romance reader and critic and we have a special guest with us today.
0:40.0	Yay! Steve Amadown, welcome.
0:44.0	Thank you. Well, thanks for having me.
0:46.0	I'm so excited to be here to, like, go full Herbie Goes bananas.
0:52.0	We are so excited to have you.
0:54.0	Steve, we have been Twitter friends, all of us for so long,
0:58.0	and tell everybody, tell everybody about yourself.
1:02.0	Sure, so I am the manuscripts and outreach archivist
1:06.0	at the Brown Popular Culture Library
1:08.0	at the Bowling Green State University, which is always a mouthful.
1:12.0	And I read romance, I write about romance history on Twitter
1:17.0	and Instagram and other places.
1:20.0	And yeah, so we are the oldest and most comprehensive repository of popular culture items in the country starting back in 1969.
1:32.0	And I've been here since 2016. It feels like your library is like romance
1:37.6	Valhalla. It is kind of I think unintentionally so, but it's one of the, it's a really unique collection and we're
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