New Book Announcement: New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

We are pleased to announce the publication of Sabrina Fuchs Abrams' new book, New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century.

Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. This book looks at the pioneering women of wit who emerged in New York City during the interwar period and the ways in which they use irony, satire, and wit as an indirect form of social protest. Many of these writers stood on the periphery of largely male New York intellectual circles, which gave them a perspective from which to critique the worlds to which they partially belonged. These include Edna St. Vincent Millay, who wrote satiric sketches under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd; Tess Slesinger of the Menorah Journal group; Dorothy Parker of the Algonquin wits; Jessie Redmon Fauset among the Harlem Renaissance writers; Dawn Powell of the Lafayette Circle; and Mary McCarthy of the Partisan Review crowd.

https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09571-4.html 

Discount Code NR24