Mayukh Sen is the aut hor of Love\, Queenie: Merle Oberon\, Hollywood's First South Asian Star\, a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and a 2025 New America Fellow\, and he teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York Un iversity. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
\nPart cultural analysis\ , part backstage tour\, \;Love in the Afternoon\, and Evening \;is a love letter to the misunderstood\, often-dismissed American ge nre of \;soap \;operas. Critics\, friends\, and \;soap \;o pera obsessives Mayukh Sen and Charlotte Druckman invite readers into a co nversation that ranges from topics both serious (race\, reproductive right s\, queerness) and fun (fashion! long-lost daughters! evil twins!). It wil l make you want to bust out your shoulder pads and binge your favorite sho w all over again. \;
\nAward-winnin
g writer \;Charlotte Druckman is the author of \;Skirt Steak \;and creator of the collection \;Women on Food. Her
work has appeared in the \;New York Times\, the \;Wal
l Street Journal\, and \;New York Magazine\, among other
s. She lives in New York\, where she was born and raised. \;
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Part cultural analysis\, part backstage tour\, \;Love in
the Afternoon\, and Evening \;is a love letter to the misundersto
od\, often-dismissed American genre of soap operas. Critics\, friends\, an
d soap opera obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers i
nto a conversation that ranges from topics both serious (race\, reproducti
ve rights\, queerness) and fun (fashion! long-lost daughters! \;evil&n
bsp\;twins!). \;It will make you want to bust out your shoulder pads a
nd binge your favorite show all over again.
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