Lost Generation

Glenway Wescott by George Platt Lynes

A Lost (But Incredibly Perceptive) Psychological Novel: The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott

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Post published:October 16, 2019
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The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story is a favorite so far among my students in the "Forgotten Books" class I'm teaching this semester. It is set in the South of France in the late 1920s but was written in 1940, long after its author, Glenway Wescott, had left France. My students and I all agreed that it is a beautiful, unjustly forgotten book.…

The Lost “Lost Generation”: Being Geniuses Together by Kay Boyle and Robert McAlmon

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Post published:September 26, 2019
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My students and I just read this book in my Forgotten Books class. They weren't thrilled by it, but I thought it was fascinating, a peek into another "lost generation" that the myth of Paris in the 20s has obscured. Their biggest complaint (and mine) is that McAlmon's chapters are a lot of name-dropping and bar-hopping without much introspection. Boyle's chapters, on the…