February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 061871197X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fascinating tidbit of literary history" according to Woodsie. It would have been so much fun to be a "fly on the wall" of February House. The book is an interesting bit of literary history that lasted for a very short time. Just to think of Gypsy Rose Lee living with these literary giants must have been one wild party, for one long hot summer. Whenever you collect a "genius pod" of intellectuals, artists, writers, and mu. The bump and grind of a literary bawdy house Charles S. Houser Sherill Tippins has done an amazing job of finding the significant narrative threads in the chaotic convergence of creative lives that occurred in the months before Pearl Harbor when Harper's Bazaar editor George Davis and British expatriate poet W.H. Auden rented a brownstone on 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights and actively recruited other creative artist. I. Sondel said A Marvelous trip down memory lane or, rather, Middagh Street. 7 Middagh Street literally doesn't exist any longer. It was torn down to make way for an Expressway. During the last decade of his life the poet Frank O'Hara lived in four different apartments in Manhattan and at least one of them has a commemorative plague. If 7 Middagh Street were still standing the entire building would have to be bronzed. George Davis, the
Here these burgeoning talents composed many of their most famous, iconic literary works while experiencing together a crucial historical moment--America on the threshold of World War II.. Known as February House, its residents included, among others, Carson McCullers, W. In this captivating book, Sherill Tippins brings to life the story of what was possibly the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century. H. This ramshackle Brooklyn brownstone was host to an explosion of creativity, an extraordinary experiment in communal living, and a nons
Sharing a chaotic yet convivial life were poet Auden and his compatriot composer friend Britten, who busied themselves with an opera drawing on their developing experience of American life. . This enjoyable and well-paced read should appeal to anyone interested in 1940s American intelligentsia and Brooklyn history alike. At its center was the flamboyant literary editor George Davis, who, at loose ends after being sacked by Harper's Bazaar, invited several of his talented New York friends to form an art commune. Her narrative interweaves biographical surveys and lively anecdotes gleaned from interviews with surviving contemporaries into a broader overview of wartime literary and artistic New York. Copyright © Reed Business Inform