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Letters of Carl Van Vechten,
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This review is from: Letters of Carl Van Vechten (Hardcover)
The Internet, which allows this review, is killing off the genre ofcollected Letters. No one does print-outs of emails. Carl Van Vechten, novelist, critic and photographer, was a sterling culture maven who promoted jazz, modern music and dance (1880-1964). In this valuable book of over 100 letters, skillfully edited by his biographer Bruce Kellner, CVV offers worldly views to Gertrude Stein, Alfred Knopf, H.L. Mencken, Langston Hughes, Hugh Walpole, Theodore Dreiser, Mabel Dodge, Ronald Firbank -- the list is both remarkable and endless. There are also letters to wife Fania Marinoff, an actress who once acted with Bankhead. (CVV & Fania had a loving marriage of convenience). Samples of the CVV heart & soul: "I am tired of drinking. I want the new sensations that perfect sobriety can give." On evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson: "She has vitality and versatility. It is just as well she confine herself to religion." On the theatre: "There is no such thing as 'realism,' at least not in any good theatre." On Thomas Wolfe: "He wrote like a creative genius and might have become one under some circumstance.." On a diva's performance in the opera, Salome: "Like seeing a favorite maiden aunt washing her pants at a public dinner." A spirited & incisive report -- thankfully, very personal -- on the American scene.
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