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This is the autobiography of Margaret Anderson, who ran a literary zine called The Little Review for 30 years...from 1899 to 1929. She is abrasive, headstrong, petulant, and pretty much the most fabulously outspoken radical American literary voice I've come across.
It's inspiring, because she lived in gross and utter destitution, and poured every cent that came in to the Little Review. There are some great scenes where she describes having dinner parties with no food and no furniture, ways she an ...more
It's inspiring, because she lived in gross and utter destitution, and poured every cent that came in to the Little Review. There are some great scenes where she describes having dinner parties with no food and no furniture, ways she an ...more
Margaret Anderson was a firecracker, there is no doubt about it. Starting out life as a Midwesterner, transplanted to New York, starting the Little Review with Jane Heap, being arrested for sending ponography through the mails for serializing
James Joyce's Ulysses
in The Little Review, moving to Paris, becoming a member of The Rope - G.I. Gurdjeff's hand-picked group of bi- and lesbian women who were devoted to working on themselves... Whew!
One of the reasons for the book's title, has got to be ...more
One of the reasons for the book's title, has got to be ...more
One can't really "rate" this as you would rate anything else--Anderson is a singular figure in American Literary History.
See my review of Fiery Fountains, the second book of her trilogy, of which this is the first.
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