Author: Lynn Peril
Lynn Peril is the author of Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office. She lives in Oakland, California.
Joanna Lumley
By:
The boozy, self-absorbed Patsy Stone is one of TV’s greatest characters.
Read This PostAlice B. Toklas
By:
A great gossip, and an acerbic critic of writers and artists in Paris
Read This PostVivienne Westwood
By:
Who cares what the world thinks an “old lady” is supposed to look like?
Read This Post
Carol Channing
By:
“There has never been anything like this before in human society.”
Read This PostDorothy Day
By:
She was devoted to comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
Read This PostEd “Big Daddy” Roth
By:
Even if you didn’t know his name, you knew his “Kustom Monsters.”
Read This PostMarie Vassilieff
By:
Find out why “the name of Marie Vassilieff will remain in the history of Montparnasse.”
Read This PostMary Leakey
By:
Meet the woman who transformed paleoanthropological field research.
Read This PostAri Up
By:
At the age of 15, ARI UP (Arianna Forster, born 1962) was lead singer of England’s all-girl punk band The Slits. No creamy underage dream vixen, she: Up was a teen Medusa who wasn’t about […]
Read This PostGypsy Rose Lee
By:
Dubbed the “Striptease Intellectual” by the American Mercury, GYPSY ROSE LEE (1911-70) wowed the boys with her witty chatter as she removed all but her G-string and two strategically placed bows. An autodidact who penned […]
Read This Post