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 literature.The 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.

• Introduction 7Zelda Fitzgerald - What Became of the Flappers? 13Dana Ames - The Clever Little Fool 17F. Scott Fitzgerald - Bernice Bobs Her Hair 33Rudolph Fisher - Common Meter 73John V. Watts - Something for Nothing 97Dorothy Parker - The Mantle of Whistler 109Katharine Brush - Night Club 115Gertrude Schalk - The Chicago Kid: A Story of Cabaret Life 135Dawn Powell - Not the Marrying Kind 147Viña Delmar - Thou Shalt Not Killjoy 167Guy Gilpatric - The Bride of Ballyhoo 183Zora Neale Hurston - Monkey Junk 197Anita Loos - Why Girls Go South 207Author Biographies 233Sources 237