When it first appeared in serial in the women’s magazine Harper’s Bazaar, the story made circulation flyand so increased male readership that makers of cigars, menswear, and sporting goods started to run ads (Loos, 80). * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk./shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes became the American best-seller of 1925. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)Ħ'14 - The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevichġ2'45 - Bedouin of the London Evening by Rosemary TonksĢ5'11 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Also discussed: The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, and Bedouin of the London Evening, an anthology of poems by Rosemary Tonks. In this edition of the podcast that gives new life to old books novelist Joanna Walsh and critic and academic Sarah Churchwell join John & Andy to talk about Anita Loos' Jazz Age novel.
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