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A review by toml72
Being Geniuses Together, 1920 1930 by Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle
5.0
I found this to be an excellent read. Regardless of what some said during his lifetime, I do think McAlmon was a fine writer - much better than his peer thought he was. It's true there are some careless errors here and there, but he wasn't concerned with perfection as much as a sort of "white hot onto the paper" stream of consciousness way of doing things. Rather unique and unlike critics the likes of that egomaniac James Joyce, McAlmon's writing is great prose as opposed to pretentious gibberish.
A flawed man who blew many of his chances because of his sarcastic and sometimes vicious tongue, he nevertheless was and remains an important part of American literature.
As for Kay Boyle, an equally interesting and compelling writer who nicely fills in gaps as well as providing an alternative and thought provoking POV.
A flawed man who blew many of his chances because of his sarcastic and sometimes vicious tongue, he nevertheless was and remains an important part of American literature.
As for Kay Boyle, an equally interesting and compelling writer who nicely fills in gaps as well as providing an alternative and thought provoking POV.