CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, Part One: WRITERS, AND WHAT THEY WROTE

(Did You Sleep With the Models?)

(N.B. Next week, Chapter Eighteen, Part Two, and the week after that, Part Three. I divided this long chapter in order not to overrun Substack’s space limitations. At a certain point, too much text and too many illustrations will bring you to a dead halt, so that you must either eliminate content or rework the post. Meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy Charles Harmon Cagle’s excellent piece on Jean Cocteau, the Mandate reprint that brings up the final part of this chapter.)