I'm glad you enjoyed and thank you for sharing! It was fun to compare newer ads (and @annehelen.bsky.social found some GREAT ones!) to the ones I spent so much time with while writing.

PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS is available now from @hopkinspress.bsky.social:

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Mother Dreyer's Potatoes have been enjoyed and appreciated in our house since you first shared the recipe. I had not before read your essay. Now I have something else to appreciate.

I adore the Indiana Dunes and enjoyed this history of the dunes themselves and of the parks!

This is marvelously cool!

These are stunning!

This is a standout quote from a thoughtful piece. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you and happy birthday!

PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS is the history of the automobile, of the women who bought and drove them, and of an auto industry that tried (and failed) to research and market to those female consumers. I can’t wait to share it with you!

I’m thrilled to announce that my first work of academic nonfiction, PINK CARS AND POCKETBOOKS: HOW AMERICAN WOMEN BOUGHT THEIR WAY INTO THE DRIVER’S SEAT, will be published next month from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Thank you for sharing!