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This is Love

The Barbizon Hotel

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In its early days, the magazine Mademoiselle positioned itself as “the magazine for smart young women.” It published work by Truman Capote, Albert Camus, and Flannery O’Connor. Each summer, the magazine selected 20 women from colleges around the country to come to New York and work as guest editors. For housing, they were put up in a women-only hotel at East 63rd and Lexington Avenue: The Barbizon Hotel. Historian Paulina Bren says: “The Barbizon was a sanctuary." Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Support for this show comes from Krakan.

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0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. In 2001, the Women's Fashion magazine, Mademoiselle, announced it was ending.

0:39.6

The actress, Carrie Russell, was on the cover of the last issue, surrounded by headlines like,

0:45.0

is your job sabotaging your sex life?

0:48.0

And are you only staying together because you're afraid of being alone.

0:55.1

The Chicago Tribune reported on the end of Mademoiselle's 66-year run and quoted a journalism

1:01.4

professor as saying,

1:03.0

the magazine had had an identity crisis.

1:07.0

When it began, Mademoiselle positioned itself as the magazine for smart young women.

1:14.0

In 1954, almost an entire issue was dedicated to the Dylan Thomas play under Milkwood. The magazine published work by Truman Capote, Albert

1:26.6

Camu, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor,

1:31.7

Jane Bowles, and many more.

1:35.6

As one writer put it, Mademoiselle was the magazine for women who wanted to write the

1:41.1

Great American novel.

1:43.0

The long-standing editor-in-chief, Betsy Talbot Blackwell,

1:48.0

wanted the staff of Mademoiselle to be young.

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