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...Gertrude Stein and Scott Fitzgerald who christened the period. The hackneyed phrases "lost generation" and "The Jazz Age" still seem very real and important to Americans--the despair and romance of American letters in the '20s and early '30s continues to fascinate. Americans have eagerly poured over biographies of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and the like. Of the man who went so far toward establishing the reputation of these writers, however, little was known save scraps of stories and legends. Now, Scott Berg's biography goes far toward illuminating the life of Maxwell Perkins, an editor for Scribner...
This collection of essays, journal and diary entries vividly recaptures the heady atmosphere of the '30s, as well as the long hangover that followed. Unlike memoirs of the period that have been recollected in tranquillity, Spender's book unfolds like a collection of vintage newsreels. With many members of his generation, the young poet rushed into ideology. He heralded "the birth of a new world" through Marxism, championed the cause of Republican Spain and did his best to see no evil hi the side he supported. If loyalist troops were sometimes brutal, Spender had an answer: "It seems...
...police version of Hines' story, which included his escape in a car, two of the three victims identified him at a preliminary hearing. The trouble is that Hines, who had never been in trouble before, has a mental age of six years and an IQ in the 30s. Says his father, Richard Hines: "They had Tommy driving a car. That boy can't even ride a bicycle...
...hindsight, one can easily see where they got their language: how Gorky's spidery, fluent line emerged from Miro, how the bulging shapes of early de Kooning derive from '30s Picasso, what Rothko got from Max Ernst and Pollock from Kandinsky, and how deeply Adolph Gottlieb's pictographs were influenced by Victor Brauner. But that is perhaps of secondary importance. What counts most in this show is the spectacle of those obscure but desperately committed artists painting as though art had the power to change life, as though culture itself depended on their efforts: which...
...early '30s, just before the Holocaust, the Singer brothers left Poland for the promised city. In New York Isaac worked for the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer...