"Meade's ruddy tone is deceptively intoxicating, and reading her book is like overhearing gossip. Yet, solid scholarship backs Meade's jazzed-up snapshots of writers Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna Ferber.... Any reader even remotely interested in the 1920s or its literary figures will be hard-pressed to find a more scintillating and easily readable book, one that's also an educational escape.... The result is a combination of scholarship and tattle, a sort of 'pulp nonfiction.' It is hoped that Meade will apply this treatment to another literary decade or figure for the education and voyeurism of readers."

-- Gretchen Gurujal, Associated Press

"Reading Meade's book is like looking at a photo album while listening to a witty insider reminisce about the images. Her writing is bright, her language charged with gritty details, gossipy tidbits, and accomplished one-liners."

-- Diane Scarper, San Francisco Chronicle

"This book is gossip; taken to the highest, cosmic level, a social movement explained in terms of trivial detail that makes everything 'real'... [It] is another whole way to understand the '20s and our all-too-American impulse to gorge on the experience, even if it's bad for us in the end."

-- Carolyn See, Washington Post

"A snappy, anecdotal tale of the writerly Jazz Age ladies -- Fitzgerald, Millay, Parker and Ferber -- and the men who adored them.... A lot of fun."

-- Kirkus Reviews

"Meade moves easily among the women, bringing to life four very different individuals and the worlds they moved in... an enjoyable and informative read."

-- Publishers Weekly

"Marion Meade has done something dazzling. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, she has resurrected the literary heroines of the l920s so that they're with us still, kicking and screaming and occasionally even writing. Fast living never felt like this on the page before."

-- Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

"If Dorothy Parker had written an episode of Sex and the City, the result would be Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin. Marion Meade knows as much about the 1920s literary scene as anyone alive, and in this book she has interwoven the adventures of her four heroines into a narrative that reads like fiction - except that, to invert Mary McCarthy's famous observation, every word she writes is the truth, including and and the. I inhaled it."

-- Amanda Vaill, author of Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

"Encapsulating the razzle-dazzle and optimism of the Jazz Age, Meade covers each year of the wild and woolly decade... [A] fast-paced and informative group biography."

-- Booklist

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