Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) was born on Storm King Mountain in New York State. She worked as a journalist during World War I before leaving the United States to spend the inter-war years in Paris and London among the most celebrated writers and artists of the twentieth century. She returned to New York in 1941 and lived in Greenwich Village until her death. She published three novels as well as short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, skits, and a three-act play between 1914 and 1950.
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Djuna Barnes
Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre
“Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves.” —Eileen Myles
“This supple collection from Barnes shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions . . . These memorable sketches unfurl a barbed wisdom of the grave.” —Publishers Weekly
The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.