Showing results for "Jazz" in Literary History & Criticism

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts.

Levy Lee Simon, professionally speaking, is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and stagedirector. He is an unapologetically Black man, born and raised in Harlem USA, withroots from the deep south. His journey takes him from the streets of NYC to being thefirst male member of his family to graduate from college. His motto was to work hardand play hard. Maybe some of you can relate. During the 80s he played a bit too hardand found himself descending into a spiral of alcohol and drug abuse. His memoir isabout his journey, falling into the dark destructive subculture of addiction and how herose ...

The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby - war hero and Oxford man - at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot.

Join us as we explore independent publishing, representation in writing, minority voices in fiction and nonfiction, and the authors and creators who tell the amazing stories that captivate us. Authors Lexi Rose and Dana Brown host this weekly podcast. Lexi is the director of public relations for Jazz House Publications and Dana is Jazz House's funding coordinator and marketing specialist.

Baba od polskiego i Janek Brożek - jedno pełno nadziei, drugie pozbawione złudzeń. Interpretujemy współczesne teksty piosenek.

This is Sisterhood Sit-In: Podcast featuring Jeannine A. Cook and Minista Jazz.  Take a literary journey through time and space with The Cook Sisters as they attempt to perform the ultimate social exorcism.  A true crime mystery meets magical realism experience where literature is the source code. Reimagine your favorite stories from authors such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Octavia E. Butler in a Sisterhood SIt-In.