Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

by Catherine Keyser

Book Overview

Smart women, sophisticated ladies, savvy writers . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. It might be said that during the 1920s and 1930s these literary artists painted the town red on the pages of magazines like Vanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813551781
• ISBN13: 9780813551784
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"