My Book Club chose the novel entitled Rules of Civility by Amor Towles for discussion this month. The book is in such great demand at the library that I was able to obtain only the Audio version. This was a new experience for me and allowed me to appreciate the mastery of beautiful prose that ...
No one can argue with the intrinsic style of cold gin and hot jazz. The Roaring 20’s, a source of inspiration for fashion designers this spring, also acts as a swank muse for decorating your own pad. While trends offer some excellent ideas, it’s the culture of the era which best guides your aesthetic vision ...
Jazz age slang is among the most fun of any iconic period language in America’s history. In fact, it is the most fun. The words that they used to describe things during the Roaring 20s makes today hip-hop slang seem almost as uncreative as rap music. (Tough slam, but I’ll stick with it for the ...
You’ve got to love Uptown. What isn’t there to love? You can find everything you need, along with ethnic and socioeconomic diversity. The homeless, the struggling to make it, the middle class, and the rich all reside there. My love affair with Uptown started in 1999 when I was introduced to the neighborhood by a ...
Introduction The term “Jazz” has become a common part of the American vernacular, both as a noun to describe a type of music and as a verb to describe something that is fancy or enhanced beyond the norm, such as a “jazzed up” car or even another piece of music. For all of the free ...
In Jazz, Toni Morrison sought to create a novel that expressed the essence of jazz. In her introduction to Jazz, Morrison writes, “I wanted the work to be a manifestation of the music’s intellect, sensuality, anarchy; its history, its range and its modernity” (xix). Morrison explains that her intent is to create a novel that ...
Zelda Sayre became the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 after a two-year courtship between the southern belle daughter of a prominent judge and the handsome, talented writer who coined the term “The Jazz Age.” With the publication of his first novel “This Side of Paradise,” the Fitzgeralds became the toast of New York ...
