Greenwich Village
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The Apostle of Voluntary Restrictions: Raymond Duncan
I fell in love with Charity and Sylvia, the subjects of my last book. And I feel seduced by many of the figures of my new research, including problematic characters like Norman Douglas, a pederast as well as an epicure. But I will never fall for Raymond Duncan, who was not only a megalomaniac, but who also preached the…
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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
Historian. Novelist. Greedy Woman. 