The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten: Volume 1, 1913-1935

Gertrude Stein

Carl, Van Vechten

Columbia University Press

This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein -- including her own autobiographical writings -- omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living": the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, Volume II: 1913-1946

This representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a resource and reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York and the social milieu during Prohibition. Bruce Kellner has provided notes identifying central figures and clarifying details.Between 1922 and 1930, Van Vechten kept a daily record of his activities. Not exactly diaries, but more than appointment books, the daybooks record his daily comings and goings as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of luminaries of the period. They catalog tales of bootlegging, literary teas, shifting cliques of artists and writers, cabaret slumming, sexual and social peccadilloes, and a seemingly endless sequence of parties.

The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930

Bruce Kellner

Literature & Fiction

University of Illinois Press

Excerpt from The Tiger in the HousePublished September 1920; second printing, August 1924; third printing, October 1936; fourth printing, February 1950; fifth printing, October 1960; sixth printing April 1968.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Tiger in the House (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Gathers Van Vechten's letters to writers, publishers, composers, actors, critics, artists, editors, and friends

Letters of Carl Van Vechten

Biographies & Memoirs

Yale University Press

Includes 10 Listening CDs Duration 39 minutes 44 seconds

"Keep A-Inchin' Along": Selected Writings of Carl Van Vechten about Black Art and Letters (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 45)

Arts & Photography

Praeger

Parties

New York: Bard/Avon, 1977

The dance writings of Carl Van Vechten

Dance Horizons

Harlem Heroes, photographs by Carl Van Vechten

Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Peter Whiffle; His Life and Works

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

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