Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg

Lost Ladies of Lit by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew

Dec 9, 202555:14Arts

Send us Fan Mail Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Margaret Vandenburg, an expert in m...

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