A simple list of all the various reviews from this blog. Someday I’ll find a better way to organize them, but for now everything is alphabetical by title. Books with a ❤️ have an affiliate link to Bookshop.org; you’ll be supporting independent bookstores and my writing as well.
Book Reviews
- Always Something Doing: Boston’s Infamous Scollay Square
- Ambition
- The American Burlesque Show
- American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose ❤️
- April Unwrapped: My Naked Dreams Revealed ❤️
- Banned in Boston: Memoirs of a Stripper ❤️
- Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America ❤️
- The Best Burlesque Sketches ❤️
- Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry
- Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs
- Brown Skin Showgirls ❤️
- Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese ❤️
- Burlesque {and the New Bump-n-Grind}
- Burlesque Dancer 101: A Professional Burlesque Dancer’s Quick Guide on How to Learn, Grow, Perform, and Succeed at the Art of Burlesque Dancing From A to Z ❤️
- Burlesque: Exotic Dancers of the 50s & 60s ❤️
- The Burlesque Handbook ❤️
- Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage
- The Burlesque Posing Guide
- Burlesque: The Baubles…Bangles…Babes
- Burlesque: The True Art of Seduction
- Burning the Gaspee ❤️
- Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque ❤️
- Carnival Strippers
- Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies
- The Corpse Wore Pasties
- The Costumes of Burlesque 1866-2018 ❤️
- Dames of Burlesque: Blaze Starr, Tura Satana, Ricki Covette and Other Ecdysiasts
- Dita: Stripteese
- Dollface Kitchen
- Dollface Vintage
- Dolls of Burlesque: Irma The Body, Dorian Dennis, Connie Vaughn and More Vintage Strip Tease Artists
- Early Havoc
- Embellishments: Constructing Victorian Detail ❤️
- Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl ❤️
- Fierce: The History of Leopard Print ❤️
- Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs
- Forbidden City USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970
- Fox’s Folly: a Duals and Donovans story
- Gallows Hill ❤️
- Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique
- Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind ❤️
- The Golden G-String
- Grizzly Pulp #1: Nympho Lounge
- Growing Up Naked: My Years in Bump and Grind
- The G-String Murders ❤️
- Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee ❤️
- Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper ❤️
- Gypsy Rose Lee, Writing & Stripping
- The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque ❤️
- A History of Burlesque
- Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture ❤️
- Inside The Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood ❤️
- It’s All That Glitters: Portraits of Burlesque Performers in Their Homes ❤️
- “…A Kind of Life.”: Conversations in the Combat Zone
- The Lady is a Stripper
- The Lady is a Vamp
- Legends of Burlesque, Then and Now
- Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee ❤️
- Lillian Lorraine: The Life and Times of a Ziegfeld Diva ❤️
- Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors ❤️
- Loie Fuller: Goddess of Light
- Looking for Little Egypt
- Mama Rose’s Turn: The True Story of America’s Most Notorious Stage Mother ❤️
- Marinka: From Havana to Burlesque ❤️
- More Havoc
- My Face for the World to See
- My Journey: Burlesque: The Way It Was
- The NecroMunchicon
- The Necronomnomnom
- The Night They Raided Minsky’s: a Fanciful Expedition to the Lost Atlantis of Show Business
- Papa’s Burlesque House ❤️
- A Pictorial History of Burlesque
- Plain Jane to Pinup Queen: Pinup Modeling Workshop in a Book
- Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens ❤️
- Punk Rock Aerobics
- Queen of Burlesque: The Autobiography of Yvette Paris
- The Queen of Hearts – The Life and Times of a Golden Age Burlesque Star
- Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus
- Queens of Burlesque: Ann Arbor, Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili St. Cyr and Sally Rand
- Retro Makeup: Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look
- Rust Belt Burlesque: The Softer Side of a Heavy Metal Town ❤️
- Sally Rand: From Film to Fans
- Showgirl Confidential: My Life Onstage, Backstage, And On The Road
- Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
- striptease
- Striptease Artists of the 1950s ❤️
- Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show ❤️
- Tease
- This Was Burlesque
- United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement ❤️
- Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Techniques, 2nd Edition
- Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions
- Western Popluar Theatre
- The Wild and Wayward Tales of Tammi True ❤️
- Wild Things: Burlesque Beauties And The Pets They Love ❤️
- Woman to Woman: Ann Corio and the Rehabilitation of American Burlesque
- Your Beauty Mark ❤️
Theatre Reviews
Film and Video Reviews
Instructional Videos
- Best Assets and Rock Bottom
- Bettie Page Fitness Workouts
- Booty Lab
- Go-Go-Robics and Go-Go-Robics II
- Honey & Spice: Sensual & Fierce Burlesque
Documentaries
- Behind the Burly-Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
- Burlesque Undressed
- Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
- Crazy Horse
- Exotic World & the Burlesque Revival
- Tempest Storm
Movies
Vintage Films
Other Reviews
Oh, The Glamourous Life! 