![]() ![]() Rather, I tried to rely on my secondhand familiarity with the period to orient my imagination. So I really didn’t do any applied research for the book. Over the years, I listened to the music, saw the movies, read the novels and manifestos, lingered in front of the paintings. Then in the span of a few decades you have James Joyce, Nijinsky, Cubism, Surrealism, jazz, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, the Russian Revolution, movies, airplanes, skyscrapers and the general upending of received forms in almost every area of human endeavor. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace. In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the 19th century seems pretty glacial. ![]() Why did you decide to write a book set in the late 1930s and how did you research the period?Ī. I’ve always had a great interest in the period between 19 – because it was a period of such incredible creative combustion. If you have other questions or would like to be on my distribution list for rare news of my writing (and receive an occasional short story), please register on my Contact page. Commentary on the role of jazz in the book is included here. Commentary on the role of Walker Evans’s photography in the book is included here. ![]() ![]() Below are some answers to commonly asked questions about RULES OF CIVILITY. ![]()
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