{"product_id":"2940150924802","title":"Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader","description":"\"Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice.\" - Biographile \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary MacLane, 1902's Racy, Angsty Teenage Diarist, wrote long before provocative, confessional writing was a genre of its own. Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women's voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure had opened a door to what was possible for women.\" - The Atlantic, March 2013 \"She comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.\" - London Times (1981 retrospect) \"Mary MacLane's first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this country, and it was a sensation.\" - N.Y. Times (editorial) \"She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous.\" - The New Yorker, March 2013 \"One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.\" - The Age (Nov. 2011 feature article) \"In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence. Mary MacLane - who openly resisted the idea that she was like everyone else, of her time or any other - lived the dream, as we say nowadays, and the sun of the wide, bright world has come to shine on her again.\" - The Awl, March 2013 \"Miss MacLane stands as the greatest sensationalist of a sensational day ... She dares to tell to all the world what most people try to keep profoundly guarded ... She stands for truth and dares the courage of her convictions.\" - From hundreds of letters-to-the-editor on her first book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I sing only the Ego and the individual. So does in secret each man and woman and child who breathes, but is afraid to sing it aloud.\" - MM, 1917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary MacLane (1881-1929) was the first of the modern media personalities: a pioneer in self-revelation, in defiance of established rules, in living on her own terms - and writing it in brilliant style. At age 19 she burst upon the world out of Butte, Montana with a journal of private thoughts and longings that incited national then international attention. In the books and newspaper articles that followed she evolved a completely new, individual voice decades ahead of its time. She influenced Gertrude Stein, inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was hotly discussed by everyday people - and America's biggest writers. Yet despite sparking film, stage, and music projects today - and being endlessly quoted on the Internet - the writer behind the writing has remained unknown until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHUMAN DAYS: A MARY MACLANE READER features the complete texts of all her books (with expurgated passages restored), her colorful newspaper articles (much never before reprinted), an intriguing 1902 interview, the first viewing ever of her striking personal letters, illuminating introductions to each era in her life, and comprehensive notes that open the door to her influences and the age she came from and impacted so profoundly. A foreword from actress Bojana Novakovic provides a contemporary artist's creative appreciation of the author's still-powerful effect upon readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving.\" - London Times \"She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told.\" - The Atlantic \"A girl wonder.\" - Harper's \"Confessional journalists have people like Mary MacLane to thank.\" - Flavorwire \"Fiery frankness made her a pioneer.\" - Time Out Chicago \"Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life.\" - Hairy Dog Review \"Riveting.\" - N.H. Public Radio \"I Await the Devil's Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger.\" - Parul Sehgal, NPR \"Pioneering newswoman, later silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties.\" - Boston Globe \"A pioneering feminist - a sensation.\" - Feminist Bookstore News \"First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers.\" - Chicagoan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheck www.marymaclane.net for exclusive content, news, and previews.","brand":"Michael Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112703410416,"sku":"2940150924802","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150924802_p0.jpg?v=1763755638","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150924802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}