Did you know that Flowers in the Attic, the mega-selling first book in the Dollanganger Series written by V.C. Andrews was based… Read More
“My Clothes Are Made of MSG”: Famous Writers’ Recollections of the 1980s
In 1980s, Wayne Koestenbaum’s boyfriend gave him a 45 rpm single of Blondie’s “Call Me” in the same year he began to read The New York Times. In 1981, he purchased an IBM Correcting Selectric typewriter. In 1984 he took a course in feminism with Elaine Showalter and bought wholeheartedly into the philosophy; around the same time, he began dyeing his hair, something he did until 1988. Koestenbaum believes it was a year before he stopped coloring his hair that he met Tama Janowitz — whose literary fame seems to be totally contained to the decade in which the two met — although he doesn’t think the Slaves of New York author would remember their meeting (but she probably doesn’t forget hanging out with Andy Warhol). … Read More
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