Walter Zacharius, who rode the passion-swollen wave of romance fiction in the early 1980s to build the Kensington Publishing Corporation into a leading purveyor of bodice-rippers and other romance genres, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
Now an app called Kink is aiming to unearth a new wave of romance and adult-fiction authors – by getting them to write stories together on their smartphones.
I grab the bowl of popcorn, resigned to the fact that no one is coming to swoop me away in a tidal wave of romance.
How much can we squeeze from this wave, from this romance, from this fishing trip, from this bar band, from this sun?
A WHILE back, Naomi Johnson, a communications professor at Longwood University in Virginia, sent me her doctoral thesis, which she described as a feminist analysis of the new wave of teenage romance novels.
The romance of radio waves, magnetic recording tape and gramophones is strong, and the digital age seems rather puny and unexciting when set alongside these progressive, physical, scientific advances.
Whether they were promising romance or contemplating interstellar radio waves, the songs stayed casual, with varying amounts of irony.
Songs like Say Hello Wave Goodbye have a Brelian sense of disillusioned romance.
The French Kicks play perky new wave rock that's as volatile as the romances they sing about.
In the nineteen-forties and fifties, Langlois's Cinémathèque Française was the key place where the future filmmakers of the French New Wave learned about movies by watching movies — where the romance of cinematic neoclassicism was born.
You would think that with young tenants, hot summer nights and moonlit waves, our bungalow would have been a hotbed of romance.
