https://timey.org/tags/american-literature/ Recent content in American Literature on Timey.org Hugo en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/paris-in-the-twenties-was-not-a-party/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timey.org/paris-in-the-twenties-was-not-a-party/ The mythology of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris has been so thoroughly processed into glamour that the actual conditions of the period have become nearly unrecognizable inside it: a city still rebuilding after the war, full of American expatriates living cheaply on the dollar-franc exchange rate, several of them drinking themselves toward early death, most of them producing work of lasting importance under circumstances that were genuinely precarious and not always recognizably fun.