Ep 396: Laura McGrath

Our guest this week is Laura McGrath, an assistant professor of English at Temple University, where she teaches literary criticism and contemporary literature--including a class about best sellers. It's in that context that she chose our book, Valley of the Dolls, the 1966 camp classic by Jacqueline Susann. We talk about the book as both a novel and a cultural phenomenon, and what McGrath's students make of it all these years later. If you like the show, and would like more of it in your life, for $5 a month you can get two monthly bonus episodes, including our ongoing Hunt for the Worst Book of All Time: https://www.patreon.com/BookFight