Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

what stories about dorothy parker, zeda fitzgerald and edna st. vincent millay aren't interesting? not many. she writes about one more edna too but i forget who. that's why this book wasn't very good. it was really uneven - she'll be writing about dorothy parker and then skip over to some guy who wa......more

A history of four intriguing women, following them from 1920 to 1930 - from a sparkling start to a somewhat less sparkling end (though not everything went awry in the end - just for some...). The author has chosen to present everything chronologically which means the women's stories come together an......more

As hard as it was to pull myself away from the television this weekend (six soccer matches! eight episodes of Gilmore Girls!), I did also read a book. A non-fiction book, even. This book, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, which is a mixed autobiography of four American women writers from the 1920s, Dorot......more

POPSUGAR 2020: A book set in the 1920s I loved the format of this history/ biography. Meade traces the lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber throughout the 1920s. Each chapter is a different year of the decade, and we discover what each woman did within t......more