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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20020814
Author:Press, Joy

REPUBLIC OF DREAMS:

GREENWICH VILLAGE-THE AMERICAN BOHEMIA, 1910-1960

By Ross Wetzsteon

Simon & Schuster, 617 pp., $35

Ross Wetzsteon, an editor and mensch for more than three decades at the Voice, died in 1998 while in the midst of writing Republic of Dreams, an impressionistic book that looks at the history of Greenwich Village bohemia via its most colorful characters. Many of these tales have been told before-Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dawn Powell, and Hart Crane have been recently biographied, and Christine Stansell's American Moderns, a rigorous take on the period, was published ...

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