Stephanie Johnson – författare

Novel Slices is a publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Each issue includes five previously unpublished novel excerpts for connoisseurs of literature across genres. Each excerpt is a winner of our semi-annual novel excerpt contest in January/February and July/August of every year.

Novel Slices is the only publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Each issue includes five previously unpublished novel excerpts for connoisseurs of literature across genres. Each excerpt is a winner of our semi-annual novel excerpt contest in January/February and September/October of every year.

Novel Slices is the only literary journal dedicated solely to novel excerpts. Twice a year, we publish new and early-career novelists who are the winners of our biannual contest in September/October and March/April.

Novel Slices is the only publication dedicated solely to novel excerpts. This issue includes the following novel excerpts:

A Forever Opposition by Sean Connell

The Satin Gunmetal Sky by Shawn Goodman

Sorry, Maggie May by Kathryn Tomasko

Seconds by Louise Kantro

The Listener by Celeste White

Novel Slices publishes novel excerpts twice a year of any genre. In this isue, our featured authors are: Dinah Cox, Samantha Facciolo, Darian Bianco, B.J. Atwood-Fukuda, and Gina Margolies, with cover art by raymie iadevaia.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A deeply touching memoir . . . A beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature—until now.” —The Washington PostThe storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest...She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in. Meet TANQUERAY.In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known to HONY followers as “Tanqueray,” a born performer who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Reeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers and hustlers, dirty cops and gangsters, Stephanie was determined to become the fiercest thing the city had ever seen. And she succeeded.Real, raw, and unapologetically honest, this is the full story of Tanqueray as told by Brandon Stanton—a book filled with never-before-told stories of Tanqueray''s struggles and triumphs through good times and bad, personal photos from her own collection, and glimpses of New York City from back in the day when the name “Tanqueray” was on everyone’s lips.

"These bawdy, gritty tales of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s will captivate listeners, but it’s Johnson who is the hero of this story. Listeners will relish every minute."- Library Journal"Humans of New York fans will delight in hearing Stephanie ''Tanqueray'' Johnson, once one of the city''s best known burlesque dancers, tell her triumphant story."-People MagazineThis program is read by Stephanie Johnson with an introduction read by Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York.The storytelling phenomenon Humans of New York and its #1 bestselling books have captivated a global audience of millions with personal narratives that illuminate the human condition. But one story stands apart from the rest...She is a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in.Meet TANQUERAY.In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known to HONY followers as “Tanqueray,” a born performer who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Reeling from a brutal childhood, immersed in a world of go-go dancers and hustlers, dirty cops and gangsters, Stephanie was determined to become the fiercest thing the city had ever seen. And she succeeded.Real, raw, and unapologetically honest, this is the full story of Tanqueray as told by Brandon Stanton—an audiobook filled with never-before-told stories of Tanqueray''s struggles and triumphs through good times and bad, personal photos from her own collection, and glimpses of New York City from back in the day when the name “Tanqueray” was on everyone’s lips.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin''s Press.

If you liked Ann Hood''s Fly Girl and Julie Cook''s Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, you''ll love True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants.

The golden age of air travel promised a life of glamour and adventure for beautiful, single, young women interested in exploring the world-and no airline offered more glamour or excitement than Trans World Airlines.

TWA provided an enviable jet-set lifestyle for flight attendants-and the opportunity to travel to exotic destinations like, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong and Bombay. Flight attendants appeared on TV and in movies, and rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, from Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy Jr., to presidents and Popes, all while decked out in designer uniforms from clothing designers like Oleg Cassini and Ralph Lauren.

In the 1960s and 1970s, TWA accepted fewer than 1% of applicants to be flight attendants-making it tougher to get into than Harvard. Plus, a flying career offered the best education money could never buy.

TWA flight attendants could cook chateaubriand medium rare, deliver a baby at 35,000 feet, and survive a plane crash-all the while immaculately dressed from their never-a-strand-out-of-place hairstyles, all the way down to their mandatory high heeled shoes. But the glamorous lifestyle of a TWA flight attendant sometimes came at a cost.

True Tales of TWA Flight Attendants is a diary-style fly girl memoir with stories from hundreds of TWA flight attendants, and filled with a fascinating behind-the-scenes, never-before-seen look at the glamour, excitement, and struggles faced by young women as they traveled the world with TWA during this exciting time in airline history-from the golden age of air travel through the great stewardess rebellion and beyond.

Click "buy now" to read the most fascinating, behind-the-curtain, fly girls'' book of the year! 

Perfect for flight attendant gifts too!