Status Updates From The Insider: Malcolm Cowley...

Didn’t expect to come across a positive note to the Weimar years!

“ When on a trip to Berlin in January 1922 [Cowley] discovered that the hyperinflation of the German mark meant, among other pleasant things for holders of American currency, that five hundred copies of a small magazine could be printed for a mere twenty dollars…”

“…he wrote a sharply critical letter about [the essay] to Matthew Josephson, not knowing that he had written the piece under a pseudonym. A correspondence of escalating antipathy followed, culminating in a final letter from Josephson typed Dadaistically on Italian toilet paper.”

I needed a break from this extremely dry and boring book