Djuna Barnes
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The Rendezvous of Epicures: New York
When I decided to expand my research from a focus on Paris to include Capri as well, I didn’t realize that this path would eventually bring me back home to New York. But Rose O’Neill, designer of the kewpie and former “Queen of Bohemia,” showed me the way. Historians, as a group, tend to be splitters not…
Café Brevoort, Capri, Djuna Barnes, drinking, Floyd Dell, Greenwich Village, Harry Leon Wilson, historicism, Hotel Brevoort, James Huneker, Jell-O, John Glassco, kewpie dolls, Kiki de Montparnasse, Louise Bryant, M. F. K. Fisher, Margaret Sanger, Morley Callaghan, New York City, Nina Hamnett, prohibition, Rose Cecil O’Neill, Thelma Wood, transnational history -
Lost Recipes of the Lost Generation
Thelma Ellen Wood was stupendously tall, sexually irresistible, and a wonderful cook with a propensity for rum and coke. Many authors who crossed paths with Wood wrote lavish accounts of her body as a dish, but none bothered to record her favorite recipes. – Most readers encounter Wood through the eyes of her jealous lover…
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My generation doesn’t eat supper
The young North American men who flocked to Montparnasse in the 1920s came to drink not to eat. The women were another matter. The men of the “Lost Generation,” as they were famously dubbed by Gertrude Stein, scorned the previous generations of wealthy tourists, like Henry James’s Christopher Newman, who came to improve their “taste” and…
Historian. Novelist. Greedy Woman. 