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Saint Mazie
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Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets.
When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bo...
When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bo...
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Jami Attenberg’s Saint Mazie Seduces With Ease
Comprised of recollections, diary entries, and excerpts, Jami Attenberg’s new novel, Saint Mazie, pays homage to “the Queen of the Bowery” with a host of striking voices, pluck, and wit. Inspired by a 1940 New Yorker profile of the real-life Mazie Phillips, a ticket-taker at the family-owned Venice Theater, Attenberg’s novel reimagines her life in tandem with that […]
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