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Remember Me to Harlem:The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten...
...early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance...
...modern art was foreign, perverse and un-American would have found confirmation of that in Stettheimer's guest list: to reach it, you pretty much had to be European or gay, or both. Then you would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz...
Though last week's hearings barely scratched the surface of Wall Street's rate structure, broker witnesses shed some light on how much give ups cost them. Van Vechten Burger, managing partner of Manhattan's Pershing & Co., testified that his firm routinely handles stock orders from mutual funds for only 25% of the fee set by the Big Board, passes on 75% to other exchange members. Last year, he said, Pershing thus surrendered some $6.9 million of its $9.7 million take from mutual-fund and other institutional trading. Michael J. Heaney, a floor partner at the American...
Their Left Bank apartment was the living room of the Lost Generation. Through it passed every star in the artistic firmament between the two World Wars-Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse, T. S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford and Carl Van Vechten. Three generations of young writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass...