7 Podcast Episodes
Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown
Don;t waste your life on growing old. Helen Gurley Brown built her reputation from the 1960s on the idea of being youthf... Read more
24 Jul 2023
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20mins
1137 Renee Rosen, novelist, "Park Avenue Summer," a roman à clef about Helen Gurley Brown 2019
1137 Renee Rosen, novelist, "Park Avenue Summer," a roman à clef about Helen Gurley Brown 2019
2019: Once again, novelist Renee Rosen delivers up a slice of actual history by taking us through it in the persona of a... Read more
7 Sep 2019
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30mins
56: Research, Historical Novels, and Helen Gurley Brown with Park Avenue Summer Author Renee Rosen
56: Research, Historical Novels, and Helen Gurley Brown with Park Avenue Summer Author Renee Rosen
We spoke with Renee Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer from Penguin Random House, about her process, her amazing resear... Read more
3 Jul 2019
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27mins
137: What She Ate: From Eva Braun to Helen Gurley Brown
137: What She Ate: From Eva Braun to Helen Gurley Brown
Laura Shapiro investigates the foodways of famous women, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Eva Braun; we travel to Okinawa for B... Read more
8 Sep 2017
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51mins
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
“Women’s history, if they had any, consisted in their being beautiful enough to become events in male lives,” the femini... Read more
20 May 2016
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48mins
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
“Women’s history, if they had any, consisted in their being beautiful enough to become events in male lives,” the femini... Read more
20 May 2016
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48mins
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
“Women’s history, if they had any, consisted in their being beautiful enough to become events in male lives,” the femini... Read more
20 May 2016
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48mins