Playing Smart - Catherine Keyser - Bog

A captivating celebration of the causes and careers of a key set of New York women writers of the 1920s and '30s, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy. It provides a refreshing and informative chronicle, saluting the value of being 'smart' as incisive and innovative humour showed off the wit and talent of women writers and satirized the fantasy world created by magazines.