{"title":"Alice Denham","description":"Alice Denham (1927-2016) was the highly-praised author of the memoirs Sleeping With Bad Boys and Secrets of San Miguel, the novels AMO and My Darling from the Lions, and many stories and articles. She is the only Playboy Playmate who ever had a short story and a centerfold feature published in the same issue of Playboy magazine. Her short story was made into a festival prizewinning movie. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina in 1949, she won a scholarship to the University of Rochester. After graduate school she headed to New York City. According to the New York Times, \"A stunning beauty with a talent for repartee, she made her way easily into Manhattan's literary salons.\" She was a founding member of the National Organization for Women. In order to make time to write, she modeled in photo shoots for magazines, novels, comic strips, movie posters, and photography clubs. She acted in low-budget films. Her Bad Boys memoir describes affairs with the actor James Dean, Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, and authors James Jones, William Gaddis, Evan S. Connell, Philip Roth. Alice's literary publications and family papers are being preserved in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC Chapel Hill.","products":[{"product_id":"my-darling-from-the-lions-paperback","title":"My Darling from the Lions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Denham's My Darling from the Lions portrays the passionate conflict between a young painter and her macho composer husband, their lovers, her female rage, his brutality, and her struggle for self-realization as an artist.The Sunday New York Times Book Review said, \"When Miss Denham is being lyrical she is capable of some really incredible language.\" The Raleigh News \u0026amp; Observer said, \"Grace is very much a female animal given to bestial and sensual passions for Carl. Carl can't possibly love her as much as she loves him, so she finds out in a soul-rending experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576850710751,"sku":"9781935178392","price":13.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qepSJ0B0KM9781935178392.webp?v=1790387483"},{"product_id":"sleeping-with-bad-boys-a-juicy-tell-all-of-literary-new-york-in-the-the-1950s-and-1960s-paperback","title":"Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the the 1950s and 1960s - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Denham's lusty memoir is a juicy tell-all about a time when male writers were gods and an aspiring and gorgeous female novelist tries to win respect--and sometimes more. Caught between the sheets are James Dean, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Philip Roth, and William Gaddis. The steam rises page by page as Denham the only Playboy Playmate to have her fiction published in the same issue as her centerfold--chases her dream of writing as a young, oversexed beauty in the literary swirl of 1950s Greenwich Village, New York City,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67944185823455,"sku":"9781493695805","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t0PjRin5ZR9781493695805.webp?v=1791471146"},{"product_id":"secrets-of-san-miguel-paperback","title":"Secrets of San Miguel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy is San Miguel de Allende known as one of the most fascinating towns in the world? In a high-powered collection of tales spanning more than forty years, the outrageous literary raconteur Alice Denham answers that question. With a pen already well-sharpened by her celebrated \"tell-all\" memoir Sleeping With Bad Boys, Denham tells yet more, and more, and more ... ... about hippies forcibly shorn of their manes, womanizing drug dealers, police torture, gorgeous bullfighters, martyred laborers, good-hearted murderers, black-hearted saints, international sex and romance both gay and straight-with rape, incest, brutality, infidelity, betrayal, kindness, loyalty, generosity, heroism, family love, and abiding friendship in the mix. You may have read books about Mexico, and even about San Miguel, but you've never read one like this. Secrets of San Miguel opens a Pandora's box of wild, wicked, scandalous, funny, and heartbreaking tales about a Mexican town long known both for its beauty and the day-to-day misadventures of its artists, writers, expatriates, and locals-by an author who was there for it all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67985618141407,"sku":"9781935178521","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/N2TYfw3ycu9781935178521.webp?v=1791949984"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alice-denham.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}