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Written between 1928 and 1933, this forthright roman à clef of the Harlem Renaissance is a more daring counterpart to Wallace Thurman's 1932 satire Infants in the Spring, in which Nugent appears as the dilettantish bisexual painter Paul Arbian. His alter-ego here is the equally outré Stuartt—yes, with two t's—an outspoken firebrand whose decadent Wildean aesthetic flies in the face of the dominant socially motivated ethos of "the New Negro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More