Episode 63 — Djuna Barnes

<p>In this episode, translator Laura Radosh introduces us to the fascinating and troubled writer Djuna Barnes.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> The journalist, novelist, and artist mixed with everyone from James Joyce to Peggy Guggenheim, and was at the center of Bohemian life in 1920s New York and Paris, though perhaps not quite as much as she would like. Best known (if at all) for her modernist novel “Nightwood,” Djuna once called herself<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> ''the most famous unknown in the world.''<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>DLS co-founder Florian Duijsens joins producer/host Susan Stone to muse about Djuna and her circle of modernist Dead Ladies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Find out more about Djuna and her work, and see her polka-dot portrait here: <a href= "https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/05/11/podcast-63-djuna-barnes">https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/05/11/podcast-63-djuna-barnes</a></p> <p>Djuna Barnes intersects with a great number of our previously presented Dead Ladies, including:</p> <p>photographer Berenice Abbott (who took the above mentioned portrait): <a href= "https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/01/20/podcast-59-berenice-abbott/">https://deadladiesshow.com/2023/01/20/podcast-59-berenice-abbott/</a></p> <p>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>dadaist Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven: <a href= "https://deadladiesshow.com/2021/10/16/podcast-47-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven/">https://deadladiesshow.com/2021/10/16/podcast-47-elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven/</a></p> <p>Here’s the documentary Laura cited where you can see Natalie Barney’s Parisian home and garden with its Temple of Friendship: <a href= "https://youtu.be/ihzoLrUkNoc">https://youtu.be/ihzoLrUkNoc</a></p> <p>The documentary we mentioned is “Paris Was a Woman” by Greta Schiller<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><a href= "https://jezebelproductions.org/paris-was-a-woman/">https://jezebelproductions.org/paris-was-a-woman/</a></p> <p>And W