When Warhol Was Still Alive (1994) is a funny, poignant novel about the women's magazine industry and life in New York in the eighties. It's about love and friendship, memory and dreams, the struggle to stay close and learning how to say goodbye.

"Margaret McMullan knows what she's writing about, deftly capturing Manhattan, magazines, and notions of mortality in her fine novel." -- Tom Prince, Senior Editor, New York magazine

"Funny, sweet, and true." -- Elise O'Shaughnessy, Executive Editor, Vanity Fair

"The situations...never seemed contrived, and the characters are very real and human. Recommended." -- Library Journal

"Margaret McMullan has a timely first novel." -- Chicago Tribune

"...a fast-paced, poignant first novel." -- The Indianapolis News

"A detailed account ofNew York's high-pressure world of magazine publishing...honest and clever." -- Midwest Bookseller

"This...situation has a sweetness...[Catherine] must Forge Her Way Alone in Life to Be a Big Girl, and on the way, reevaluates her loving bond to best friend Joey - the most engaging character here - who develops AIDS. When she loses him, we, too, grieve the loss of this man who wore Minnie Mouse barrettes and whose dresses were too small for Catherine to borrow." -- Booklist

"The novel often reminds us of the work of Anne Tyler in its treatment of serious matters beneath a surface of comedy." -- Tribune-Star

"Failed relationships, illness, death, a crumbling apartment, a love triangle that geometrically mutates...McMullan accomplishes all this with great wit, nail-on-the-head characterizations, and an easy, omniscient voice." -- Bloomington Voice

Awards

* Society of Midland Authors 1994 Best Adult Fiction Finalist.