The Washington Times, March 21st, 2004
Byline: Lorna Williams, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The place is New York City in that heady, desperate decade of jazz, prohibition, shockingly short skirts, gangland murders and the newest new thing - talking movies; the decade that ended with the stock-market crash. The year is 1928 and something is rotten in Gotham's magazine world. "Bandbox" isn't Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop," but it's lots of fun.
Five years before the novel opens, Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris took on the editorship of Bandbox, reviving it at death's door from "an overpriced rag for overaged pansies" to the best men's magaz...
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