Reviews

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas, Fritz Metsch

jenmillie's review

they need a "tried to read" selection. was pretty disappointed with how this was written. one paragraph would have about 15 different names dropped. i don't think anyone who didn't know a little about the time period covered would read this, yet the author seemed compelled to convince the reader about the freedom of the time and place, the reason people moved to new york, etc. .
quite possible i didn't give it enough of a chance.

lawrenceevalyn's review

2.0

Largely irrelevant to my project, which is no sin, but also oddly Freudian. A useful reading of the modernism of the Harlem Renaissance, though.