Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives

by Elizabeth Searle (Editor), Tamra Wilson (Editor)

Overview

In the midst of acne, social anxiety and training bras are the teen idols that make adolescent life a little more bearable. Whether their cutouts are plastered on bedroom walls or hidden behind locker doors, there is no denying the impact of these stars on young women.

This collection of new essays explores with tenderness and humor the teen crushes of the past 60 years--from Elvis to John Lennon to Whitney Houston--who have influenced the choices of women, romantically or otherwise, well into adulthood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476632445
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction. Her show Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has been widely produced and has drawn national media attention. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA. Tamra Wilson is a fiction writer, essayist and Road Scholar speaker for the North Carolina Humanities Council. She lives in Newton, North Carolina.
Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction. Her show Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has been widely produced and has drawn national media attention. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Peter Noone
Introduction: The Truth Behind the Sighs
Tamra Wilson
Always on My Mind
Love Me Tender (Judy Goldman)
The Hands of Time: A Paul Newman Love Story (Nancy Swan)
Twisting the Night Away: I’m Sorry, Sam Cooke (Breena Clarke)
Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat
Back to Hermania (Tamra Wilson)
P.S. I Love You (B.A. Shapiro)
Love Is the Ultimate Trip (Michelle Soucy)
Meeting Mark Lindsay: A Story of Friends and Fandom (Amy Rogers)
Here’s Lookin’ at You
Bogie and the Boys: Humphrey Bogart and Bobby Sherman
(Elizabeth Searle)
Beneath the Surface (Ann Harleman)
My Horrible Celebrity Crush (Linda K. Sienkiewicz)
This Crush Is My Crush (Janice Eidus)
Three Stars Will Shine Tonight
Parallel Secrets (Katharine Davis)
When I Stumbled Over Rob Petrie (Jill McCorkle)
Cowboy Jesus (Marianne Leone)
She Loves You
Yeah Yeah Yeah: John, the Thinking Girl’s Beatle (Susan Lilley)
Now I Need a Place to Hide Away (Ann Hood)
George (Lise Haines)
Groovy’s Hat (Marianne Gingher)
Loves Me Like a Rock
The Stuff Daydreams Are Made Of (Hank Phillippi Ryan)
When I Fell for Dylan (Susan Shapiro)
Dear Miss Joni Mitchell (Marjorie Hudson)
Followed by a Moonshadow: My Secret Life with Cat Stevens
(Morgan Callan Rogers)
I Got You Babe
Cher Bliss (Lesléa Newman)
Piece of My Heart (Leslie Lawrence)
Bobby Orr (Suzanne Strempek Shea)
What Would Chrissie Do? (Katie Hafner)
Endless Love
Pretty Brown Girl with Big Brown Eyes (Darlene R. Taylor)
Good Guys (Lisa Williams Kline)
Julie on My Mind (Mary Granfield)
Rescue Me (Leslie Pietrzyk)
Rock with You
I Should Have Married Michael Jackson (Susan Woodring)
Cry, Baby (Kate Kastelein)
Confessions of a ­Would-Be Duran Duran Groupie (Caitlin McCarthy)
Can’t Smile Without You
Songs That Make the Young Girls Cry: My Life with Manilow
(Stephanie Powell Watts)
Oh, Misha (Ann Rosenquist Fee)
What a Feeling (Lee J. Kahrs)
Dear MJ: A Love Letter, Late (Shara McCallum)
I Will Always Love You
Sending My Representative: Whitney Houston and ­Black-Girl Perfectionism (Dolen Perkins-Valdez)
“Digging for Fire”: 1990s’ Nostalgia and the Pixies
(Heather Duerre Humann)
Distiple: An Obsession in Ten Albums (Lisa Borders)
My Heart Will Go
I’ll Never Let You Go (Mary Sullivan)
“Bowie” (Diana Goetsch)
Mary Sue in Search of Lemons (Emlyn Meredith Dornemann)
We Were All in Love with Michael Jackson (Susan Straight)
About the Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

Idol Talk offers fun, distinctly unique stories of the right-of-passage experience of celebrity ‘puppy love’ and celebrates how these crushes changed these former teenyboppers’ lives from a more mature perspective.”—Ann Moses, former editor of TIGER BEAT and author of Meow! My Groovy Life with TIGER BEAT’s Teen Idols.

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