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Barnes was born  \nin 1892.After early studies as an artist,in 1913 she  \nbecame a newspaper columnist and interviewed  \nhundreds of the famous figures of the day.In thiscollection,Barnes's subjects speak vividly again from thepast,infused with far more of her personality than theywould probably care for.Nothing is sacred-and no oneis safe.Ostensibly 'interviews with the stars',they aremore reminiscent of Barnes's own novels and plays thanof conventional journalism.Have you been makingnotes?'asks Helen Westley,founder of the Theatre Guild.T don't have to,'replies Barnes,'My memory alwaysmakes a paragraph out of a note automatically.'  \nWe encounter James Joyce,'the head turned further awaythan disgust and not as far as death'and 'the substance,the ether,the haze,that goes by the name of Ziegfeld’.“ICould Never Be Lonely Without a Husband”,says LillianRussell',while 'Nothing Amuses Coco Chanel AfterMidnight.In this 'distorted but highly revealing recordof one of the greatest eras of American arts'(DouglasMesserli),we read Djuna Barnes at her quirky andbrilliant best.  \nCover design by Jll Raphaeline  \nISBN 0-86068-796-1  \nLiterature/Journalism  \nC  \nDJUNA BARNES(1892-1982)was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson,an artist's colony north of New York.She was educated by herparents:her American father was an artist,her English mother awriter.In the early 1900s Djuna Barnes went to New York,study-ing art at the Pratt Institute and the Arts Students League.By 1913she was a regular columnist for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle,illustratingher work with her own Beardsley-influenced drawings,also con-tributing to other newspapers.Her journalism enabled her tosupport her mother and three younger brothers after her father'sremarriage.In 1915 Djuna Barnes published her first poems,TheBook of Repulsive Women.She married the editor Courtenay Lemonbut this lasted for little more than two years.After their separationin 1919 she travelled to Paris with letters of introduction to EzraPound and James Joyce.Here she continued to write,becoming astylish figure of Parisian expatriate life,at the centre of the Mod-ernist movement.She began a ten-year relationship with thesilverpoint artist,Thelma Wood and when this ended in 1931 shewas helped by Peggy Guggenheim who gave her money andsomewhere to live.She also stayed at Peggy Guggenheim's Eng-lish home,writing Nightwood under her roof.Her friend,the writerEmily Holmes Coleman,was largely responsible for bringing thisnovel to the attention of T.S.Eliot who published it in 1936 withhis own introduction.Nightwood immediately became a cult novel,as did her last major work,The Antiphon,a dramatic poem inspiredby her association with Eliot.Djuna Barnes also published A Book(1923);a novel,Ryder(1928);a revised and enlarged edition of ABook—ANight Among the Horses(1929);Selected Works(1962)and abook of rhymes,Creatures inan Alphabet(1982).Virago also publisha collection of her previously uncollected tales,Smoke and OtherEarly Stories(1985).  \nThis enigmatic literary figure,whose circle included RobertMcAlmon,Natalie Barney,Kay Boyle,Gertrude Stein and AntoniaWhite,became a recluse in 1940.She moved into a small apartmentin Greenwich Village and from time to time her neighbour,  \ne.e.cummings,would shout from his window“Are ya still alive,Djuna?\"She died six days after her ninetieth birthday.  \nI COULD NEVER BELONELY WITHOUTA HUSBAND  \nInterviews by  \nDJUNA BARNES  \nEDITED BY ALYCE BARRY  \nFOREWORD AND COMMENTARY BYDOUGLAS MESSERLI  \nPublished by VIRAGO PRESS Limited 198741 William IV Street,London WC2N 4DB  \nFirst published in U.S.A.by Sun &Moon Press,1985  \nThis edition offset from the Sun &Moon Press 1985 edition  \nCopyright Sun &Moon Press 1985  \nJames Joyce;A Portrait of the Man Who Is,at Present,One of theMore Significant Figures in Literature,C1921 by","cbCaibCfLndqv7Rk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibCfLndqv7Rk","pdf",14950142,402,"English","# Foreword\n## Reassessment of the interviews\n## 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