Where All Good Flappers Go

David M. Earle is a Professor of Modernism and Print Culture at the University of West Florida. He publishes regularly on the history of magazines and popular publishing. His books include All Man! (Kent State University Press), a study of gender in 1950s men's magazines, and Re-Covering Modernism (Routledge 2009), on the popular forms of modernist literature. He has also edited the "Oxford Online Bibliography of Popular Magazines of the Early 20th Century" (2021).

All Good Flappers ... deftly reconsiders the relationship of modernist to modernism, and demonstrates how F. Scott Fitzgerald's and others' work is a part of a wider modernist impulse...the stories provide a compelling overview of the ways in which the flapper figure evolved in the popular Black and white press ... ultimately creating the new genre of flapper literatureThe main strength of this collection is in the breadth of authors represented: so-called literary and pulp, well-known and unknown. [They] destroy the old shibboleths of the flapper as a white girl, and they break the walls between the New Negro Renaissance, white modernism, and popular magazine and newspaper culture.