- Guido Bruno
Guido Bruno (1884–1942) was a well-known
Greenwich Village character, sometimes called 'the Barnum of Bohemia'.He was based at his "Garret" on
Washington Square . He produced severallittle magazine publications from there, in particular around 1914-16: "Greenwich Village" magazine, then "Bruno's Weekly", and the 15 cent "Bruno Chap Books". He publishedAlfred Kreymborg ,Djuna Barnes andSadakichi Hartmann , letters ofOscar Wilde ,Alfred Douglas ,Richard Aldington on theImagists . Others were Theodore Albert Schroeder, Edna Worthley Underwood, and Charles Kains-JacksonHe was a close associate of
Frank Harris , allegedly though stealing Harris's diary and trying to sell it.References
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Ross Wetzsteon . "Republic of Dreams, Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960". New York:Simon & Schuster , 2003. ISBN 0-68486-996-9.Further reading
* Arnold I. Kisch. "The Romantic Ghost of Greenwich Village: Guido Bruno in his Garret".
Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 1976. ISBN 3-26101-727-9.
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