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Shelf Love: romance novel discourse

A podcast & community discussing romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Andrea Martucci (she/her)

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Too Many Romance Scholarship Projects

What am I going to finish in this one, beautiful and precious lifetime?

How Teen Romance Caught Fire in the 20th Century

From junior novels to Sunfire, Wildfire, Avon True Romance, Kimani Tru, and Twilight: a quick history of romance for young readers

HEA Discourse Again? Groundbreaking.

This… “HEA”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.

Collecting the Romance from Janice Radway's Reading the Romance

Building My Romance Novel Collection

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Condoms in Romance: Tracking Down Claims About Firsts

The Trouble with Trailblazer Narratives

I Want You (to Want Me) So Badly

Why do we fantasize about being desirable to the powerful rather than fantasizing about a utopia of equality?

Why Did Lisa Kleypas Revise the Wallflower Books?

Excerpt from episode 171 with Tehyah Carver

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Putting Romance Book Sales Data in Perspective

Is it true that 1 in 5 fiction books sold are romance?

Is Omegaverse Paranormal Romance?

Stray thoughts about genre classifications and genre expectations

This Crazy Cat Lady Reads Romance

Celebrating Cats in Romance