Yuval Taylor: Zora and Langston

A Story of Friendship and Betrayal. USA 2019, 304 pp. with several b/w photographs, hardcover, € 23.95
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W. W. Norton
Zora Hurston and the gay Langston Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, were best friends - until they weren't. Hurston and Hughes were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play »Mule Bone«, and wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even ... Weiterlesen

Edward White: The Tastemaker

Carl van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. USA 2014, 380 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a constant visitor of the Greenwich Village underground gay scene, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance who believed in racial difference. He brought Gertrude Stein to the ... Weiterlesen