Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

Free as Gods (The University Press of New England) examines the works of the expatriate community in Paris during the Jazz Age, from 1918-29, when figures like Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald converged upon the city and produced works that pushed boundaries and defined an era. Riley reveals the ways that these contemporary artists influenced one another, and also brings new analysis to how their works influenced those of African American artists like Langston Hughes and women artists like Gertrude Stein.