I knew vaguely going into this that things didn’t usually work out so well for the lesbians in these books-publishers usually insisted on a distinct lack of happy endings, you know, in case someone thought they might be advancing a homosexual agenda! But I was trying to reserve my judgement until I’d actually read one of these pulp novels, and I naively got about a third of the way through Odd Girl Out thinking, wow, this love story is actually quite adorable and Bannon’s observations on the social conventions of 50s college life are actually quite fascinating. Ann Bannon’s pulp novel Odd Girl Out (the first of the famous Beebo Brinker series) is the first, and so far only, 1950s lesbian pulp novel I’ve read.
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