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  • When we met, and during the long course of our affair, we wrote fiction, but we loved all of the ways that words formed beautiful, important things that seemed to us true we read a lot of Keats and Yeats, but also H.D. and Djuna Barnes, Joyce and Woolf, William Gass and Clarence Major.

    My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011

  • Her tenure saw such inventions as the Modernist Book Club, with readings of Faulkner and Djuna Barnes, and marathon "Harry Potter" book-release parties.

    40 Years for 'Sacred Place' Steve Dollar 2011

  • When we met, and during the long course of our affair, we wrote fiction, but we loved all of the ways that words formed beautiful, important things that seemed to us true we read a lot of Keats and Yeats, but also H.D. and Djuna Barnes, Joyce and Woolf, William Gass and Clarence Major.

    My Ex Published A Poetry Collection--About Me! Zoe Triska 2011

  • The British journalist Djuna Barnes volunteered to be "forcibly" fed for a muckraking exposé in The World Magazine (1914) and later wrote that "it is utterly impossible to describe the anguish of it."

    Jacob M. Appel: Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut 2009

  • She also became aquainted with Djuna Barnes, a former lover of Lawrence Vail.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • Of course, out of that she was paying Djuna Barnes an allowance as well as her ex-husband Lawrence Vail and John Holms common law wife Dorothy.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • A flâneur as well as a great hill-walker, he is given to "St. Germainizing" and to the company, actual or potential, of Sartre and Djuna Barnes and Kandinsky.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Inheriting a small sum of money once again, von Freytag-Loringhoven traveled to Paris in 1926, where her room rent was paid by Djuna Barnes.

    Elsa von Fretag-Loringhoven greenintegerblog 2008

  • For Stein, as well as for other figures I consider in this work—Djuna Barnes, Wydham Lewis, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce—to present man at home in the world, to record what is observable was ultimately not a true choice; for these authors the world “out there,” nature, was a great emptiness that as for Primitive man, had no meaning except with what man endowed it.

    Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008

  • As she wrote her friend Djuna Barnes: errors in spelling have not been corrected I went to the consulate with a large-wide sugarcoated birthday cake upon my head with fifty flaming candles lit—I felt just so spunky and afluent!

    Elsa von Fretag-Loringhoven greenintegerblog 2008

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