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  • Peter Whiffle
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    Peter Whiffle

    Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character's literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the arts through the...
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    Firecrackers Firecrackers
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    Firecrackers

    Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Published in the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Van Vechten's...
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  • The Merry-Go-Round The Merry-Go-Round
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    The Merry-Go-Round

    This classic novel about the jazzy, neon-lit world of 1920s New York is a must-read for fans of American literature and cultural history. Written by renowned author and critic Carl Van Vechten, The...
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  • The Silver Stallion (Esprios Classics) The Silver Stallion (Esprios Classics)
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    The Silver Stallion (Esprios Classics)

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. He worked from 1898 to 1900 as a newpaper reporter in New York City, but returned to Richmond in 1901,...
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  • Domnei (Esprios Classics) Domnei (Esprios Classics)
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    Domnei (Esprios Classics)

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. He worked from 1898 to 1900 as a newpaper reporter in New York City, but returned to Richmond in 1901,...
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  • Staying on Alone
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    Staying on Alone

    On tissue-thin paper in a tiny, often undecipherable hand, Alice Toklas described her daily life in Paris in absorbing detail, like a latter-day Madame de Sévigné. Here are shrewd, witty observations...
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  • Crystal Flowers
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    Crystal Flowers

    Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist of German-Jewish heritage living in New York. She was a painter, designer, and poet. Together with her sisters Ettie and Carrie, Stettheimer...
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  • Born to Be Born to Be
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    Born to Be

    In BORN TO BE one of America's foremost Negro spiritual-singers has written a real American autobiography. Starting with the days when he was a page in a questionable Montana resort, Mr. Gordon gives...
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    Gertrude Stein Remembered
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    Gertrude Stein Remembered

    "[A] highly enjoyable collection ...Stein emerges not just as an innovator and perhaps a genius but as a brave, funny, and hugely likable woman."--New York Times Book Review. Gertrude Stein...
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  • Covarrubias
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    Covarrubias

    At the center of an artistic milieu as vital and exciting as the Left Bank of Paris or Greenwich Village, Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias knew almost everyone in the limelight of the 1930s and...
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  • Writing Jazz Writing Jazz
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    Writing Jazz

    This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van Vechten) and literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as well as jazz performers and...
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  • Negro Drawings Negro Drawings
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    Negro Drawings

    Miguel Covarrubias is best remembered as a celebrity caricaturist. He came to the United States from Mexico at the age of nineteen and was an immediate sensation. Soon after his arrival in New York...
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  • Making Music Modern
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    Making Music Modern

    New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and...
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  • Two People (Gay Classics) Two People (Gay Classics)
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    Two People (Gay Classics)

    Neglected for over forty years, this moving novel has been republished in a more tolerant climate. "Two People" is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger...
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