{"title":"John Shelton Reed","description":"John Shelton Reed is William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a co-founder of the Center for the Study of the American South and the quarterly Southern Cultures. He has written or edited 19 books, most of them about the American South, and was recently Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.","products":[{"product_id":"dixie-bohemia-a-french-quarter-circle-in-the-1920s-paperback","title":"Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane University, resided among the \"artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter.\" In \u003ci\u003eDixie Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends--ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer--and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the Jazz Age. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReed begins with Faulkner and Spratling's self-published homage to their fellow bohemians, \u003ci\u003eSherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles\u003c\/i\u003e. The book contained 43 sketches of New Orleans artists, by Spratling, with captions and a short introduction by Faulkner. The title served as a rather obscure joke: Sherwood was not a Creole and neither were most of the people featured. But with Reed's commentary, these profiles serve as an entry into the world of artists and writers that dined on Decatur Street, attended masked balls, and blatantly ignored the Prohibition Act. These men and women also helped to establish New Orleans institutions such as the \u003ci\u003eDouble Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e literary magazine, the Arts and Crafts Club, and Le Petit Theatre. But unlike most bohemias, the one in New Orleans existed as a whites-only affair. Though some of the bohemians were relatively progressive, and many employed African American material in their own work, few of them knew or cared about what was going on across town among the city's black intellectuals and artists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe positive developments from this French Quarter renaissance, however, attracted attention and visitors, inspiring the historic preservation and commercial revitalization that turned the area into a tourist destination. Predictably, this gentrification drove out many of the working artists and writers who had helped revive the area. As Reed points out, one resident who identified herself as an \"artist\" on the 1920 federal census gave her occupation in 1930 as \"saleslady, real estate,\" reflecting the decline of an active artistic class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA charming and insightful glimpse into an era, \u003ci\u003eDixie Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e describes the writers, artists, poseurs, and hangers-on in the New Orleans art scene of the 1920s and illuminates how this dazzling world faded as quickly as it began.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366203523295,"sku":"9780807156100","price":29.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y2Gc2VJcX_9780807156100.webp?v=1789087958"},{"product_id":"the-ramos-gin-fizz-hardcover","title":"The Ramos Gin Fizz - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ramos Gin Fizz was invented sometime around 1890 by Henry Charles \"Carl\" Ramos at his Imperial Cabinet saloon in New Orleans. It includes lemon and lime juice, egg white, cream, and orange flower water, and, shaken properly, it becomes a foamy white concoction that has been called \"the nectar of New Orleans,\" \"the Cadillac of Cocktails,\" and \"the Crescent City's most notable contribution to civilized tippling.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a history of the drink and a biography of its inventor, starting with the early years in which the Ramos Gin Fizz became nationally famous as a New Orleans icon. Although Prohibition almost put an end to it in New Orleans, it survived elsewhere--for instance, at the Cadillac Bar in Nuevo Laredo--and after Prohibition's repeal, the drink quickly recovered and was once again a New Orleans favorite. In the 1940s and '50s, it became known as a sophisticated and glamorous drink, popular with celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and Tennessee Williams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike many classic American cocktails, the Ramos Gin Fizz was eclipsed by fruity disco drinks in the 1970s and '80s (although it had a strange shadow life as a California brunch drink). With the cocktail revival at the turn of the century, however, it was again recognized as an American classic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ramos Gin Fizz\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to reconstruct Ramos's original recipe using modern ingredients and addresses the question of how and how much to shake the drink, a subject on which there is surprisingly much to be said. Offering recipes for the original drink, a modern version, and many imaginative riffs, this eminently readable book is a must-have for any cocktail lover's library.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368465400031,"sku":"9780807183526","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ais5e1ieBG9780807183526.webp?v=1789128473"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-shelton-reed.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}