theparisreview.org/blog/2026/10/27/second-life-of-cynthia-buchanans-maiden

Sexless in the City: The Second Life of Cynthia Buchanan’s Maiden

Walker Rutter-Bowman reviews Hagfish's reissue of Cynthia Buchanan's 1972 debut novel Maiden, following Fortune Dundy, a thirty-year-old virgin in a Los Angeles singles complex. He examines its satire of dating, jobs, television and self-presentation, praising Buchanan's prose.

— via The Paris Review, Walker Rutter-Bowman


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