Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Paperback)

from DameMuriel

Ambitious-tries to explore the lives of the Queen Bees of the literary scene in America in the 1920s-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker, and Zelda Fitzgerald. The book isn't long enough to do them justice so it sort of comes off as a long-winded synopsis. Plus, I don't really di...

from labwriter

Marion Meade is also the author of a biography about Dorothy Parker, *What Fresh Hell Is This?*. This was such a fun book. What a shame that I seem to be the only member with this book in her library. I HUGELY recommend this book. Here's a line taken from random, typical of Meade's writing: "West...

from kittyjay

Dorothy Parker has always been a personal fascination, one evidenced by the myriad collections of her work, biographies, and even a movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh that grace my bookshelves. So naturally I picked up Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade, with its arresting title, and pr...

from thejazzmonger

I really enjoyed this book. I was, likely, predisposed to since I came to it with a long-time interest in the period (Roaring 20's), in the literature of the times, and it's celebrated authors. I think The Great Gatsby is, perhaps, the finest novel of American Literature and Zelda and Scott Fitzg...

from thejazzmonger

I really enjoyed this book. I was, likely, predisposed to since I came to it with a long-time interest in the period (Roaring 20's), in the literature of the times, and it's celebrated authors. I think The Great Gatsby is, perhaps, the finest novel of American Literature and Zelda and Scott Fitzg...