{"title":"Mary Maclane","description":"Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice. - Biographile \"Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.\" - London Times \"She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told.\" - The Atlantic \"In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence.\" - The Awl \"She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous.\" - The New Yorker \"One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.\" - The Age \"Confessional journalists have people like Mary Mac-Lane to thank.\" - Flavorwire \"Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women's voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure opened a door to what was possible for women.\" - The Atlantic \"Fiery frankness made her a pioneer.\" - Time Out Chicago \"Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life.\" - Hairy Dog Review \"Riveting.\" - New Hampshire Public Radio \"I Await the Devil's Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger.\" - Parul Sehgal, NPR \"First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers.\" - Chicagoan \"This book is the heart cry of youth not yet at home in the world. Where, since Emily Brontë, can we find this lightning-like intuition, and this special kind of simple, vivid, flashing English - direct, rhythmic, beautiful?\" - Harriet Monroe \"Little short of a miracle. No more marvelous book was ever born out of a sensitive, precocious brain.\" - Clarence Darrow \"She senses the infinite resilience, the drunken exuberance, the magnificent power and delicacy of the language.\" - H.L. Mencken \"A girl wonder.\" - Harper's (two-page exclusive spread) \"A pioneering feminist - a sensation.\" - Feminist Bookstore News \"From now on must take a prominent place in any discussions of American women's writing and the literature of the West.\" - Dr Peter Donahue, Oklahoma State University - \"A pioneering newswoman and later a silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties, 'the Joan of Arc of the Red-Hot Mamas.' 'How did it happen, ' declared one of her eulogists, 'that a revolution in manners started, or seemed to start, with an unruly young woman who couldn't bear the sight of the toothbrushes hanging up in the family bathroom at Butte, Montana?'\" - Robert Taylor, Chief Critic, Boston Globe","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/mary-maclane.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}