Volume 24, Number 2 · February 17, 1977
Dragtime
By David Jackson
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
by Geoffrey Wolff
Random House, 367 pp., $12.95
The Age of Nostalgia in which we find quantities of current books dwelling (and earning a good living) is not yet in its twilight years. The much abused label, Biography, is stuck on collection after collection of pages about a person whose 'biographer' hopes to make the era in which his subject lived fascinating to a wide public. What emerges is not a character in stage center; rather, scenery appears, most of it slapdash construction, painted in colors bright enough to be seen from top row balcony rear. And so when yet another curtain goes up, and once again we are treated to the old 'Twenties set,' before the mad bad chorus comes streaming out of the wings one is tempted to steal away.
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