Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg

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Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Margaret Vandenburg, an expert in modernism, post-modernism and gender studies, joins us to illuminate Barnes’s tumultuous life and help us decipher her "ultimate breakup novel,” a work that casts its spell by turning the world upside down in subversive defiance of fascism.
Mentioned in this episode:
Nightwood (bookshop.org/p/books/nightwood-djuna-barnes/e1…) by Djuna Barnes
Craze (bookshop.org/p/books/craze-margaret-vandenburg…) by Margaret Vandenburg
An American in Paris (bookshop.org/p/books/an-american-in-paris-a-no…) by Margaret Vandenburg
Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes (bookshop.org/p/books/djuna-the-extraordinary-l…) by Jon Macy
The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes (amazon.com/Djuna-Life-Work-Barnes/dp/0140178422) by Phillip Herring
New York (amazon.com/New-York-Sun-Moon-Classics/dp/09406…) by Djuna Barnes (collected journalism)
The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems (bookshop.org/p/books/the-book-of-repulsive-wom…) by Djuna Barnes
Ladies Almanac (bookshop.org/p/books/ladies-almanack-djuna-bar…) by Djuna Barnes
“The Antiphon” (thriftbooks.com/w/the-antiphon-a-play-green-in…) by Djuna Barnes
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 266 (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/266-radclyffe-hall…) on Radclyffe Hall
Zadel Barnes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadel_Barnes_Gustafson)
Barnes’s 1922 portrait of James Joyce (vanityfair.com/news/1922/03/james-joyce-djuna-…) for Vanity Fair
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