February House
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
Tippins chronicle of how the housemates came together and why they went their separate ways defies the myth of the solitary artist: genius loves company just as much as misery does
February House
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
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Tippins chronicle of how the housemates came together and why they went their separate ways defies the myth of the solitary artist: genius loves company just as much as misery does
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From 1940 to 1941, WH Auden and Benjamin Britten shared a house in Brooklyn with Paul and Jane Bowles, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, among others. The house was established as an artistic and intellectual community, and Tippins brings to life the rise and fall of the group, exploring the role of art in the first years of World War II as these creative geniuses struggled with the conflict of what to do with so much creativity when the world was so close to chaos.
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Tippins chronicle of how the housemates came together and why they went their separate ways defies the myth of the solitary artist: genius loves company just as much as misery does
Surely the most improbable live-in salon of the 20th century
The most remarkable powerhouse of creative talent to come into being during the war years ... wonderfully readable and entertaining
A witty and entertaining account of an eccentrically elegant Brooklyn building and the glamorous writers who lived in it during the 1940s
Tippins gives a warm and very wide-eyes account of the various goings on
making the Brooklyn Group a less cohesive if more flamboyant rival to Bloomsbury
