Judy Blume
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Teenage Girls Need Judy Blume More Than Ever August 05, 2024
The day my menstrual cycle started, my mother knocked on the bathroom door and presented me with a pad.“Congratulations,” she said—and then, because I was still standing there with my hand out: “What’s the matter?”"Where’s the belt?" I asked....
The Age of Adolescence May 24, 2023
Originally published in 1970, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, is the story of an eleven-year-old girl who moves from New York City to the suburbs while going through puberty and has to try to fit in at a new school. Written from th...
Judy Blume’s Unfinished Endings April 26, 2023
The writer Judy Blume lives in Key West—“an exciting place to live,” Blume told me, in March, when I visited. Chickens roam free, orchids “grow like weeds,” cats wander in Hemingway’s house, and disco plays out drag-bar windows, all in DeSantis-era F...
Did Philip Roth Read Judy Blume? April 06, 2023
When Judy Blume reintroduced her novel Wifey, first published in 1978, in a 2004 preface, she related an anecdote about the reception of her often salacious fiction. “My mother, who went to high school with Philip Roth’s mother, met Mrs. Roth on the ...
Judy Blume Goes All the Way February 28, 2023
Like tens of thousands of young women before me, I wrote to Judy Blume because something strange was happening to my body. I had just returned from visiting the author in Key West when I noticed a line of small, bright-red bites running up my right l...
