![]() I wish I could be dead,” Barnes had remarked a decade earlier), these extraordinary conversations were collected in Interviews by Djuna Barnes ( public library), featuring Barnes’s own drawings of her subjects. In 1985, three years after Barnes died at the age of ninety, outliving every single person she ever profiled ( “It’s terrible to outlive your own generation. ![]() In 1913, after completing her studies in art, 21-year-old Barnes began interviewing and profiling some of the greatest artists, writers, actors, singers, playwrights and other luminaries of the first half of the twentieth century for a number of prominent magazines. But few know that Barnes was also a formidable journalist - a practitioner of literary journalism decades before Gay Talese pioneered the genre. ![]() Djuna Barnes might be celebrated as a pioneer of modernist writing, her 1936 novel Nightwood a beacon of both modernist fiction and queer literature. ![]()
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