Introduction
Chapter One: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and the “Cross-word Puzzle School”
Chapter Two: Playing in Earnest: The Crossword Poetics of Eliot and Pound
Chapter Three: “Little Ladies” vs. “The Big Boys:” Dorothy Parker on Trivia(lity)
Chapter Four: “They Took to Gaming and Swapping that ‘Other’ of the Mystery”: Riddles in Djuna Barnes’s Ladies Almanack
Chapter Five: The Changing Faces of Cane
Chapter Six: Carson McCullers and the Puzzle of Belonging
Afterword
Biography
Laura Lorhan is an independent scholar who earned her doctoral degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of “May Howard Jackson and the Development of Jean Toomer’s Multiracial Modernism” in Twentieth-Century Literature (June 2023) and “Turning the Tables on ‘Bluebeard’: Intertextuality in Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox” (forthcoming).
