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And She Doesn’t Even Usually Fight Smugglers: Nancy Drew

March 20, 2024

Nancy Drew, the greatest of the twentieth century Girl Detectives, has a long and complicated legacy.

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Double the Fun: Sweet Valley

March 13, 2024

The long, complicated, and repetitive world of Sweet Valley, from elementary school to Confidential.

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Working Girls: The Baby-Sitters Club

March 6, 2024

The President's baby never goes missing, but a lot else happens in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, involving babysitting.

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Horse Girl Mystery: Trixie Belden

March 4, 2024

Trixie Belden, another of the ghost-written books for girls. This time with a lot of detail about horses.

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Music and My Freshman Year

August 2, 2023

1991 was a powerful year for me and for music, and they coincided strongly.

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Grimy ’70s Vision

March 30, 2022

There's just something gritty and beige about '70s movies.

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Especially For Girls! But Also Universal!

March 23, 2022

The Especially For Girls line was useful but also a demonstration of a real problem in media.

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Aging Changes

August 19, 2020

It's strange to consider how people look younger for longer than they did even just a few decades ago.

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Weird Pop Culture Cartoons

June 3, 2020

Why was there such a fixation on making cartoons of pop culture that didn't need to be children's cartoons?

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Admiration From Afar—No, Farther Than That

August 1, 2018

Pop culture crushes are a way to test your personal boundaries and probably go back much farther than we discuss.