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February House (2005)

de Sherill Tippins

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The story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born here. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her bedroom. W. H. Auden, who along with Benjamin Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.… (més)
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one of last books I read w WORDIES before I moved to Portland in 2006 - thoroughly enjoyed it ( )
  Overgaard | Feb 6, 2021 |
Entertaining, if uneven. The letters and diaries of Auden and Britten give the author a window into their significant personal and artistic development over the period covered in the book. Other residents are treated in more superficial, anecdotal, and often repetitious fashion. Carson McCullers’ daily sherry ration began to wear on me. But even as a collection of names the book would be quite worth looking at, and there is a reference list of sources that provides many avenues for more detailed follow-up.
  booksaplenty1949 | Sep 18, 2020 |
What a magical house that must have been! I love when people gather into that kind of impromptu salon because the artists inevitably influence eath other. And the fact that they get to support each other makes it very bohemian. ( )
  dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |
For most of my life, my favorite period of history has been the 35 or 40 years just prior to my own arrival. Whether tales of the Algonquin Round Table, [a:Barbara Tuchman|137261|Barbara W. Tuchman|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1229046503p2/137261.jpg]'s [b:The Proud Tower|192955|The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914|Barbara W. Tuchman|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Q7X2SVJ1L._SL75_.gif|1649174] and [b:The Guns of August|11366|The Guns of August|Barbara W. Tuchman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166469894s/11366.jpg|1884932], Schlesinger's history of FDR's presidency, or fiction set in the period, I'm always drawn to it. So when http://www.todayinliterature.com recently mentioned [b:February House|59659|Imperium|Ryszard Kapuściński|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533405s/59659.jpg|2358709], I was pleased to find it at my local library. I had a hard time putting it down.

The book is the true story of one year in the lives of a group of writers, musicians, and artists who either lived at, or visited frequently, a house in Brooklyn Heights. The year is 1940-1941. The residents and their friends include such well-known names as [a:Carson McCullers|3506|Carson McCullers|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188820982p2/3506.jpg], [a:W. H. Auden|285217|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190290128p2/285217.jpg], Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, [a:Gypsy Rose Lee|76947|Sherill Tippins|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], Klaus and Erika Mann (son and daughter of [a:Thomas Mann|5223|Franz Kafka|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185826841p2/5223.jpg]), [a:Paul Bowles and his wife Jane Salvador Dali author: Christopher Isherwood].... George Davis, whose idea it was to rent the house and make it a sort of artistic commune, is less well known now, but was fiction editor at Harper's Bazaar when that meant publishing serious and even avant-garde fiction, and later married Lotte Lenya, the widow of Kurt Weill, and was instrumental in keeping Weill's music before the public.

[b:February House|59659|Imperium|Ryszard Kapuściński|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533405s/59659.jpg|2358709] is much more than a book full of famous names and entertaining stories. It examines the tensions of the period, when America was not yet in the war; when the American artistic and intellectual community was welcoming and assisting European colleagues to safety in the U.S., while simultaneously feeling competitive with them. Auden, Britten, Pears and Isherwood, as Britons who had come to the U.S. before the war, suffered both inner conflict and outward criticism for being away from their native land in its time of crisis. Many of the group were homosexual or bisexual, with all the problems that entailed at a time when one could be arrested for acting on that orientation. But most importantly, there was the creative impulse that unified them and sometimes divided them. How does an artist of any kind find or create the optimum conditions for doing his work? What should that work be, in a time of international crisis? And, as one might expect in a group of twenty- and thirty-somethings, where and how does one find love? A great deal of energy was expended on love -- requited or unrequited, romantic, Platonic, or triangulated.

[b:February House|59659|Imperium|Ryszard Kapuściński|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533405s/59659.jpg|2358709] is a fascinating book, almost guaranteed to make the reader want to dig deeper into the works of the writers, musicians and artists it describes, and also evoking an exciting and terrifying time in our history as well as a vanished (literally -- the house was torn down in 1945 for an expressway) part of New York. Highly recommended. ( )
  auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 |
Really interesting, with little mini bios of all the people, and great images like Carson and Gypsy running through the streets of Brooklyn chasing a fire engine in the middle of the night, holding hands. As they're running, Carson gets the image that helps her pull The Member of the Wedding together.
Also a lot of stuff about expat Brits trying to figure out what, as artists, they should do about the war, and attitudes about them in the UK.
I've read a biography of McCullers, and Gypsy's memoir, but know almost nothing about Auden except that he was a gay poet, and there's a lot about his philosophical brooding about war, his romance with Chester Kallman, and other fascinating stuff. Ditto Paul and Jane Bowles, and now I'd like to find out more about them and read Two Serious Ladies. ( )
  piemouth | Nov 4, 2011 |
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The story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born here. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her bedroom. W. H. Auden, who along with Benjamin Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.

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