Djuna barnes

Djuna Barnes passport

An author offten described as eccentric and morbid, it's no wonder that quotes by Djuna Barnes (author of Nightwood) can be described the same way.

To celebrate the end of the year, we're running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We'll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th.

Posts about Peggy Guggenheim written by ephemeralnewyork

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Djuna Barnes, 1926.

This post is not really about fashion--maybe "style" would be a better word. I have been thinking a lot about a different kind of style lately...that is, writing style. In the midst of studying for my exams, I am feeling both a sense of gratefulness for the work I have chosen to do as well as a sense of being overwhelmed and inundated by words. When things start getting tedious, or the words start running together, or I feel like I am suffocating under an avalanche of library books, I have…

Djuna Barnes, best known as a cult feminist-ish lesbian experimental novelist, once described herself—with unaccustomed hauteur—as “the unknown legend of American literature.” In her early career, she claimed to have worked for every English language publication in New York City, excepting only the Times, and by the time she left for Paris in 1921, had published …

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes