Tag Archives: 1978
I Gotta Be Me By Tammy Bakker (With Cliff Dudley)
(Click here for information on the 2022 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. This week, the second selection, Tammy Faye [Bakker] Messner’s I Gotta Be Me) There may be three feet of snow on the … Continue reading
Movie Madness And/Or Mania: Summer of Fear [AKA Stranger In Our House] (1978)
Theatrically-released versions of vintage YA works are few and far between- it has taken until this year to finally get a high-profile Judy Blume adaptation (The first pass, Tiger Eyes, an indie release directed by Blume’s son, basically sank without … Continue reading
The Best Little Girl In The World By Steven Levenkron
The idea came to her with a flash of excitement. Francesca was fat. Francesca was dead. I feel like this is one of those titles that for a couple of decades was as widely-known and widely-read as Are You There … Continue reading
Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Women’s Room By Marilyn French
(Click here for information on the 2020 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. This week, the June Selection, Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room.) I vowed to complete the “June” Imaginary Book Club title by … Continue reading
The Back Of The Book Part II: (Still) More From Seventeen, May 1978
So, a big THANK YOU for eveyone who shared their memories about the fat camps, boarding schools of questionable repute, and get-rich-quick schemes that Seventeen was trying to sell to the impressionable teens of 1978. They were a blast to read! This … Continue reading
The Back Of The Book Part I: More From Seventeen, May 1978
As voted upon by YOU, THE READERS, this week we take a second look at the May, 1978 issue of Seventeen, specifically the tiny, black & white advertisements for teenage dreams and schemes. As a Seventeen reader in the early 1990s, I have … Continue reading
Movie Madness and/or Mania: Snowbound (1978)
Welcome back, Constant Readers and thank you for casting a vote in last week’s poll to determine what ELSE we should look at inside a 42-year old issue of Seventeen magazine. With a full 50% of the vote, we shall … Continue reading
Magazine Madness and/or Mania: Ideas For Hideous Entertaining from Seventeen, May 1978
Ah, the late 1970s. So many Earth Tones, so many ads for tanning oil. What did it mean to be a teenager 42 years ago? Well, I am actually rather unclear, because a lot of the content in this issue … Continue reading
Steffie Can’t Come Out To Play By Fran Arrick
To meet a man like Favor on her very first day in New York City… Runaway teen stories if this era can be numbingly repetitive- when 14 year old Stephanie Rudd explains that’s she ditching her terrible family and terrible … Continue reading
Looking On By Betty Miles
There has to more to her life than just looking on… This week’s book strikes me as a sort that isn’t written any more: a coming-of-age story in which not much really happens. In this case the most dramatic thing … Continue reading
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989 