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How Romance Novels Center Marginalized Joy
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How Romance Novels Center Marginalized Joy

Also: why does someone always end up sick in bed

After our GREAT discussion of A Court of Roses and Thorns we realized we wanted to talk a lot more about romance: about the so-called “boom” and what’s fueling it, of course, but also about various tropes (sick bed, forbidden romance, grumpy protagonist), race and cultural specificity, the level of “spice” and how it shows up on the page, and how to man…

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