Today there is no formal, acknowledged genre known as “flapper fiction.” There is no collection of contemporary short stories from the 1920s dedicated entirely to The Flapper… Until now.
Dawn Powell, Flapper Stories, and the Pulps
By August of 1921, Dawn Powell had conquered Manhattan: she had safely navigated the way out of a broken and restrictive family in a rural Ohio town, found her way to New York, carved a career for herself as journalist and publicist, had married, and was about to have her first and only child. This was arguably the happiest moment of Powell’s domestic life. Soon, though...