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Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane, Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930, Penguin, 1991.

This anthology provides more than two dozen essays
by the most eminent critics of Modernism. Topics
range from the artistic scenes in various cities to
the formal characteristics of modernist poetry to discussions
of some of the smaller movements within
Modernism.

Charters, Jimmie, This Must Be the Place, Herbert Joseph, 1932.

Jimmie Charters—"Jimmie the Barman"—tended bar
at the Dingo in the Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse,
a notorious haunt for such modernist writers as
Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.The book provides
a portrait of these writers in their leisure hours,
written by a man with very little interest in their art
but a great appreciation for their personalities.

Douglas, Ann, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, Farrar, Straus,.....

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