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Product details
- ISBN 9781324075561
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Adored by battalions of devotees and maligned by others for melodramatic twists and turns, soap operas have had an outsized impact on culture, prefiguring the rise of today’s reality television and character-driven prestige dramas. In Love in the Afternoon... and Evening, cultural critics Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen salute the stories and talent that have sustained the industry since its radio days. Featured are interviews with soap icons; deep dives into the genre’s infamous tropes and archetypes; and considered takes on the industry’s treatment of race, reproductive rights and queerness. Part cultural analysis, part backstage tour and all love letter to an oft–misunderstood art form, Love in the Afternoon... and Evening will make you want to bust out of your shoulder pads and binge-watch your favourite show all over again.
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Mayukh Sen’s Love, Queenie was praised as:
“Extraordinary." —The New York Times Book Review
"[Love, Queenie] is one of the best film-related biographies I’ve read." —Brian McFarlane, The Sydney Morning Herald
Charlotte Druckman is an award-winning writer, author of Skirt Steak, and creator of the collection Women on Food. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, among others. She lives in New York, where she was born and raised. Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie—a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography—and Taste Makers. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
