In the years following World War I, the New Orleans's French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter," as they styled themselves. In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner s circle of friends ranging from the ...
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In the years following World War I, the New Orleans's French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter," as they styled themselves. In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner s circle of friends ranging from the distinguished writer Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer, from Tulane s president to one of its cheerleaders and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the jazz age.
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Good. In the years following World War I, the New Orleans's French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane, were among the 'artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter, ' as they styled themselves. In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner s circle of friends ranging from the distinguished writer Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer, from Tulane s president to one of its cheerleaders and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the jazz age.
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A fescinating account of the French Quarter scene in the 1920s, when writers and artists and musicisians came together to create a Southern version of Grennwich Village. Prohibition did little to restrain the party, which went on for years.
